Thanks for the hg facilities!

Ben Schmidt mail_ben_schmidt at yahoo.com.au
Sun Nov 16 22:11:29 UTC 2014


On 16/11/14 5:50 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 11/15/2014 10:36 AM, Alan Mackenzie 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.
>
> +1

+1

I use hg-git with projects that use Git, rather than use Git itself.

It has some limitations, but I prefer to work around them than mess
around with Git.

One day I'll probably try to contribute to the hg-git project to improve
its user experience.

Ben.






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