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Oh Shit, Git?

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464 points Anon84 | 12 comments | 16 Jan 25 18:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.387s | source | bottom
1. dgfitz ◴[16 Jan 25 23:45 UTC] No.42732415[source]▶
I’m pumped a search for hg+mercurial had hits in this thread. I am and will continue to be completely blown that hg lost the dvcs wars. It’s a better tool.
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2. gmueckl ◴[17 Jan 25 00:02 UTC] No.42732549[source]▶
It is the unquestioningly better tool right now. It's available, stable, battle-tested and it's actively supported. It's a case of "being the change you want to see". Just use it. Claims that it lost are counterproductive. The implicit deterrence from those statements is what is actively keeping Mercurial's adoption low.

Hosting is available at least from Sourcehut and heptapod.host.

I'm running a private Heptapod instance (Gitlab fork with direct Mercurial support). It just works.

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3. greazy ◴[17 Jan 25 02:27 UTC] No.42733432[source]▶
Are there any public forges that support hg?
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4. gmueckl ◴[17 Jan 25 02:57 UTC] No.42733623{3}[source]▶
Have a look at heptapost.host for paid hosting and foss.heptapod.net for free public hosting for OSS. Is that what you are looking for?
5. romaniitedomum ◴[17 Jan 25 04:57 UTC] No.42734246{3}[source]▶
> Are there any public forges that support hg?

Sourceforge, Sourcehut, and GNU Savannah all support Mercurial.

6. paulddraper ◴[17 Jan 25 06:31 UTC] No.42734697[source]▶
It's the slower tool.
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7. thatsthejoke ◴[17 Jan 25 08:15 UTC] No.42735212[source]▶
That sounds interesting. Does anyone have a GitHub link?
8. guenthert ◴[17 Jan 25 10:33 UTC] No.42736085[source]▶
That was relevant to Linus in the early 2000s, but then, we didn't have NVMe SSDs.
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9. dgfitz ◴[17 Jan 25 23:04 UTC] No.42744170[source]▶
I don’t mind if it is slightly slower, if that is even true anymore.

Turns out while hg clone, pull, or whatever is running, I can do other things!

10. paulddraper ◴[18 Jan 25 00:06 UTC] No.42744558{3}[source]▶
It is still noticeably slower on a large codebase.
11. dgfitz ◴[18 Jan 25 01:01 UTC] No.42744828[source]▶
I use it every day!
12. fschmidt2 ◴[22 Jan 25 09:38 UTC] No.42790937[source]▶
Modern scum (members of depraved modern culture) always prefer what is worse over what is better, so of course they prefer Git over Mercurial. Anyone who wants Mercurial hosting can use my hosting: https://hg.reactionary.software/