Re: Alternative DVCS to git: hg?

[Eric Hawicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On April 17, 2019 10:49:49 AM EDT, Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Apr 2019, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>> Agreed. And after having to deal with git for a couple of years, I
>must say 
>> that I find git to be the most problematic VCS I have ever used.
>
>After using git for my day job, I find that I depend on a lot of
>features
>that are missing in cvs.
>
>All of the hg vs git web pages I find pretty much say hg isn't quite
>complete. Does anyone have any pointers for the viewpoint that hg is
>favorably comparable to git (just for my own info)?

If by "incomplete" you mean "doesn't add needless complexity" then sure. ;)

I don't have any pointers, but I've found that hg can do pretty much everything I've needed to do with git, and it had the added benefit of guaranteeing change history (e g  with git you don't actually know whether any branch as of today has any relation to the same branch yesterday), not to mention having a simpler mental model.

Either git or hg work fine if you're aware of the limitations, and IMO are way better than CVS.

Eric