From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neal Becker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: preferring mercurial Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:35:22 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389270954 17315 80.91.229.3 (9 Jan 2014 12:35:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:35:54 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 09 13:36:00 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Eq8-00054t-CL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:36:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Eq7-0002R7-VO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:35:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46703) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Epw-0002Jz-3N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:35:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Epm-0005S6-LK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:35:48 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Epm-0005Rs-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 07:35:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W1Epj-0004Ay-6H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:35:35 +0100 Original-Received: from exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com ([139.85.223.11]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:35:35 +0100 Original-Received: from ndbecker2 by exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:35:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: exa2-in-fw-01-epn.hns.com User-Agent: KNode/4.11.4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167895 Archived-At: 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. hg also has tortoisehg, which is a very nice mature gui. There is nothing like that for git. I have found 1 or 2 guis that are extremely limited in function.