Hi, On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, at 10:57, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:38:56 +0200, Matthias Urlichs >>The work people did on CVS and SVN and HG and whatnot didn't go down the >>drain either, when git took over the world.
> That's different. git won because it was the superior program. No. Git won because of the network effects. It was not, and still isn’t superior to Mercurial, not in terms of the internal design, data model nor in terms of the user interface. I only use Git myself because everyone else uses Git, including my work colleagues. If I were to use Mercurial, I’d be using it on my own, or use hg-git. -- Cheers, Andrej
