Comment by dgfitz

Comment by dgfitz a day ago

10 replies

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.

gmueckl a day ago

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.

  • greazy a day ago

    Are there any public forges that support hg?

    • gmueckl a day ago

      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?

    • romaniitedomum a day ago

      > Are there any public forges that support hg?

      Sourceforge, Sourcehut, and GNU Savannah all support Mercurial.

paulddraper a day ago

It's the slower tool.

  • dgfitz 12 hours ago

    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!

  • guenthert a day ago

    That was relevant to Linus in the early 2000s, but then, we didn't have NVMe SSDs.