Viability of Mercurial as an alternative to Git in 2024?

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "ABvM" == Arne Babenhauserheide via Mercurial <mercurial at lists.mercurial-scm.org> writes:

> Uwe Brauer via Mercurial <mercurial at lists.mercurial-scm.org> writes:
>>> But when I’m already in Emacs, having an Emacs UI is more efficient.
>> 
>> Yes, but that is what I try to say! There
>> was already an Emacs interface doing that!
>> 
>> It is called commit-patch.el found in:
>> 
>> 
>> https://github.com/caldwell/commit-patch
>> According to the logs it started in 2006 😉 

> "It allows you to just hit C-c C-c in any patch buffer to apply and
>  commit only the changes indicated by the patch, regardless of the
>  changes in your working directory."

> That’s exactly what vc-mode now does when you call C-x vv in a patch. Is
> it possible that it reuses commit-patch or builds on it?

No, vc-mode is an entirely independent implementation. I remember this
because I motivated Dmitry Gutov[1] 

The advantage of C-x vv is that if offers you the 
«The major mode is Log-Edit/hg mode defined in vc-hg.el:»

Where you can use for example log-edit-insert-changelog (which I use
very often)

While the commit-patch-buffer solution does not have this feature.

Uwe 

Footnotes:
[1]  = nagged him Dmitry Gutov till he gave in 😇

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