Viability of Mercurial as an alternative to Git in 2024?

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

David Demelier <markand at malikania.fr> writes:

>> On 19 Jul 2024, at 14:28, PIERRE AUGIER <pierre.augier at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> wrote:
>> 1. Setting up Mercurial with basic extensions (topics, hg-git,
>> evolve) is TOO difficult and long for beginners (in particular
>> compared to Git).
>
> I don't know for you all but I always used the package manager of my
> system to install Mercurial with no issue whatsoever. I consider
> non-distributed extensions as experimental and yes in 15 years of
> Mercurial use, I'm still not using evolve nor topics.

I use evolve, but not topics, and I wished, they would just be merged
into Mercurial proper.

They are what makes Mercurial strictly more powerful than git, and
having them temporally broken on every update — or missing from
distributions — is annoying.

They are so deeply coupled, that they often break on update, so they
should be part of Mercurial, and part of the regular release testing.
The same goes for hg-git (which is nowadays a core requirement for using
Mercurial to contribute to a random project I find online).

Best wishes,
Arne
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