Viability of Mercurial as an alternative to Git in 2024?

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

David Demelier <markand at malikania.fr> writes:
>> More generally, with Git, one can run `git config --global user.name
>> "Mona Lisa"`, which is convenient for beginners (much more than
>> editing a file).

> My own .hgrc didn't move in 10 years. Editing a configuration file
> from code is annoying and complicated which to me is not really
> needed. If we start thinking of that then vim, tmux, zsh, and all
> others should offer command line configuration edition too.

We nowadays have

hg config -e

This resolved the problem of editing the config file without adding the
problems that come with editing possibly commented files with commands.
You nowadays no longer need to search for the file. Just run `hg config
-e`. Or `hg config -el` (l for "local") to edit the config file of the
repository.

Best wishes,
Arne
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