Mike Coleman wrote: > Just for curiosity's sake, could someone outline the five (or so) most > significant pluses of hg relative to git?
Every single git command line example I have seen gives me exactly the same gut reaction I get whenever I have to read Perl code. You can extol the tool's virtues to me all day long, but you're never going to eliminate that visceral horror at its interface, any more than someone that loves Perl is going to have any luck convincing me that it really can be a sane choice of language for anything more than write-once-read-never throwaway scripts. Note that it *isn't* the idea of a using a directed acyclic graph in general that bothers me (since all DVCSs are pretty much forced to do that): it's specifically the way the sensibilities of git's original audience are reflected in the CLI, and the subsequent offense to my own personal sense of aesthetics :) The Mercurial and Bazaar interfaces on the other hand, both seemed perfectly palatable (e.g. a bit more inclined to use words over arcane symbols), and Hg appears to be a clear winner against Bazaar when it comes to performance *right now*. So Guido's intuition actually sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
