From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: preferring mercurial
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:28:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140109152846.729318a3@anarchist.wooz.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lam51v$gh6$1@ger.gmane.org
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On Jan 09, 2014, at 07:35 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
>I don't understand the git momentum. I've use hg heavily, and am generally
>happy with it.
>
>Every time I have to use git, I have a terrible time. I find it vastly more
>complicated than hg. The docs (in the form of man pages) I find never answer
>my questions. Each one seems to cover 100 different topics, variations and
>corner cases. Trying to read this requires a vast new vocabulary or arcane
>terms.
I agree in terms of git's --help docs. Here's a not-a-metric:
% git merge --help | wc -l
630
% bzr merge --help | wc -l
116
% hg merge --help | wc -l
35
Is it possible to be *too* helpful? :)
I highly recommend O'Reilly's book on git by Loeliger and McCullough (2nd
edition). It has the clearest explanation of git's model that I've seen, with
nice pictures for emphasis. As a bzr > hg > git > svn > cvs > rcs fan, I
wouldn't say the book has made me love git, but it has certainly helped me
make peace with it, to paraphrase a different post in this thread.
-Barry
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 12:35 preferring mercurial Neal Becker
2014-01-09 13:11 ` Tim Visher
2014-01-09 13:53 ` Neal Becker
2014-01-09 13:44 ` Rüdiger Sonderfeld
2014-01-09 14:49 ` François Orieux
2014-01-09 17:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 9:54 ` François Orieux
2014-01-10 11:48 ` Nathan Trapuzzano
2014-01-10 12:44 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 11:50 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 13:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-10 14:08 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 15:22 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 15:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-10 16:09 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 15:03 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-10 19:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-10 19:54 ` David Engster
2014-01-10 19:55 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-11 15:55 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2014-01-11 16:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-15 17:07 ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-15 16:49 ` Martin Geisler
2014-01-09 15:42 ` Yuri Khan
2014-01-10 15:16 ` Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2014-01-09 20:28 ` Barry Warsaw [this message]
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