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noobermin ◴[] No.43972113[source]
I guess the dream is dead. Even in open source, we have consolidation with no real hard monetary markets involved.

EDIT: skimming these comments, I like how none of the top comments are talking about the bigger story here which is the move away from mercurial to git and instead everyone is focusing on github itself. This has essentially sealed hg away to obscurity forever. Do people not realise git is a program that runs on your computer and github is just a service that uses git? May be this is an old man gripe at this point but I'm surprised at the lack of technical discussion around this.

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garganzol ◴[] No.43973331[source]
I cannot imagine moving to Git from Mercurial. Git looks clunky from my perspective. Yes, it works too, but working with Git is a usability torture, sorry but it is true. I like some Git features better though, but not most of them.
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1. noobermin ◴[] No.43977357[source]
My honest opinion is that I hate that git won, it's too complicated for no benefit with complexity I personally will never leverage as a scientist who doesn't work in large teams.

I use it for visibility and ease, that's all. Otherwise I personally dislike it.