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Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement (itsfoss.com)
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[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Having alternatives is always good! And BTW, Git won not because it was better than mercurial...

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure, at the very beginning of the launch of Git, Mercurial was better/had more features/more mature/etc.

That's just not true after 20 years of mainstream git adoption and development today.

[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mercurial is also simpler than Git and the commands are more intuitive

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Neither of those observations, even if true, are an incentive for someone to migrate away from git.

[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They are true (I bet you never used mercurial) and you must learn how to read: Where did I wrote to migrate from Git to mercurial? Having alternatives is good

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

You're proselytizing mercurial in a thread full of git users. Migration is implied in your comment, even if you didn't literally use those words.

"Simpler" is not necessarily an improvement and might actually be a downside. "Intuitive" is not universal and might not even be accurate for other people with different experiences.

I read just fine. Maybe you must learn to chill.

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The only thing better than perfect is standardised. Supporting two vcs-systems would mean that a lot of tooling would need to be duplicated for it