Mercurial popularity is stagnant

[Raffaele Salmaso]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The use of Git(Hub) at Mozilla is driven by multiple factors:
>
> a) Popularity of Git
> b) Perception that Git is "better" than Mercurial

c) It's easier to attract and retain contributors on GitHub
>
I think a) is driven by c) (other than "I've spent a lot of time to learn -
poorly? - a tool, why spend other time with another similar tool?).
But I find b) is driven by poor default choices in default enable options.
My ~/.hgrc if full of *default* extension enabled. Keep in mind that we are
talking about developers, but DCVS are used even by other people, and if
they can use the awful user interface of git, why they should be worried by
some advanced options enabled by default?

And rethink a bit bookmark workflow, to act like git branches models, which
for some workflow/tasks I find it is better suited than named branches.


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