Thanks for the hg facilities!

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Nov15, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm at muc.de> wrote:

> Hello, Mercurial.
> 
> The main project I work on, Emacs, has just converted to using git
> (although not from Mercurial).  What a nightmare!  I'm having to get
> used to things like "git clone" not exactly doing a clone, "git push"
> and "git pull" not being opposites, "git log" not identifying the branch
> a commit is on (and being told by others that "I don't need this") and a
> lot more besides.  I don't think you can be "just" a user of git; you've
> got to know the internal workings to a greater or lesser extent.
> 
> By contrast, I've been using Mercurial for some while now, and know next
> to nothing about its internal mechanisms.  That's the way I want it to
> stay!  I'm just a user.
> 
> I'm grateful indeed for the simplicity and elegance of the UI to the
> Mercurial system.  It was easy to learn and is easy to use.
> 
> Thanks!


+1

I've been using Git to access work-related repositories and tools
for the past 1.5 year too, and I completely understand where Alan
is coming from. It's nearly impossible to use Git without spending
an inordinate amount of time to understand what happens beneath the
surface. Then there are cases when you *do* understand what's going
on under the surface, but it just smells awful.

At first I thought of switching to Git for my personal repositories
too, because of "familiarity" after using Git for a while at work.
Now, I am convinced I don't have to do anything with Git, it I can
avoid it.

I can talk for hours about things which annoy me about Git, but that's
not a productive use of everyone's time. All I want to say is that you
have my thanks too, on top of Alan's.

Thank you!

- Giorgos