**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 07:32

**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 07:32

Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏 @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz

Reminder:

That open source software you persist in calling "shit" probably represents man-years, even decades, of work. And you're getting it for free.

Don't be an ingrate.

**unsupervised web dev** @meredith_matthews · May 12, 2018, 07:40

**unsupervised web dev** @meredith_matthews · May 12, 2018, 07:40

@HerraBRE ... The interface is still crap tho.

**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 09:04

**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 09:04

@meredith_matthews You're talking about git. Hating on git is fashionable right now.

I remember life before git. It was SO MUCH WORSE.

Git absolutely revolutionised software development. Compare git with CVS or SVN or Visual SourceSafe... it's light-years better in almost every way.

People used to be afraid to fork because merging back was nigh impossible.

Sure, git could be better. Everything could be better. But calling it crap is... well, let's just say silly. You are being silly. 😜

**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · May 12, 2018, 09:15

**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · May 12, 2018, 09:15

@HerraBRE @meredith_matthews Agree. Software change management before git was worse.

git won't be the last word on change management. It does have obvious flaws, and so there's room for new things with improved syntax and merging capabilities.

**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · May 12, 2018, 09:17

**Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅** @bob@soc.freedombone.net · May 12, 2018, 09:17

@HerraBRE @meredith_matthews In any future gitalike system I'd like to see issues/bugs also included as part of the system. I think fossil tries to do something like this.

**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 09:18

**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 09:18

@bob @meredith_matthews You might like fossil.

It seems like a genuinely better system in many ways.

I kinda wish it had caught on instead of git, but it's hard to compete with the Linus Torvalds Seal Of Approval.

**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 09:18

**Wack Playstation Sup! 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏** @HerraBRE@mastodon.xyz · May 12, 2018, 09:18

@bob @meredith_matthews Ugh, sorry, redundant, you just mentioned fossil.

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · May 12, 2018, 17:18

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · May 12, 2018, 17:18

@HerraBRE @bob @meredith_matthews Not knowing any better, I'm willing to concede that Git's probably better for large codebases like the kernel but for most projects Mercurial would be way less confusing for the same practical functionality.

It'd be interesting to understand the reasons Git took off the way it did and Mercurial is so much in the shadows. Is it just Github? Seems to me Git popularity came first. Just fashion? I don't know.

**unsupervised web dev** @meredith_matthews · 2018-05-12T19:17:53Z

unsupervised web dev @meredith_matthews

@edavies @HerraBRE @bob @meredith_matthews GitHub has a lot to do with it, It spread the word. And as I've said in other places, it really is a superior choice to other vcs's, at least the ones I've been forced to use.

May 12, 2018, 19:17 · Twidere for Android · 0 · 0

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · May 12, 2018, 20:53

**Ed Davies** @edavies@octodon.social · May 12, 2018, 20:53

@meredith_matthews @HerraBRE @bob I admit I haven't had the patience to put up with more than the minimum of actually using Git. I keep reading articles about it hoping for enlightenment but still haven't seen anything compelling it has that Mercurial doesn't.