Viability of Mercurial as an alternative to Git in 2024?

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

Uwe Brauer via Mercurial <mercurial at lists.mercurial-scm.org> writes:

>>>> "ABvM" == Arne Babenhauserheide via Mercurial <mercurial at lists.mercurial-scm.org> writes:
>
>> David Demelier <markand at malikania.fr> writes:
>
>>> Well, convenient and Git in the same sentence is somewhat strange.
>>> Git is far from being convenient in any shape of form.
>
>> At work we’re using Git. That was hard to bear until I learned to use
>> magit (in Emacs). And magit actually makes Git convenient from Emacs.
>> It was only recently that Mercurial could follow up on that when
>> vc-mode got support for committing patches partially. See
>> https://www.draketo.de/software/emacs-tipps#vc-mode-partial
>
> Right, but it was possible even before using 
> commit-patch-buffer (and an external program)

The commandline is actually pretty convenient:

hg commit -im 'the message'
(select hunks interactively)

But when I’m already in Emacs, having an Emacs UI is more efficient.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
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heißt politisch sein,
ohne es zu merken.
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