* Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> [230824 05:45]: > On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 10:18 PM Christian Brabandt <cbli...@256bit.org> > wrote: > [...] > > For a similar reason and because of the mess I created with the > > mercurial mirror, I am thinking to retire the mercurial repository. I > > think it is pretty clear that nowadays git is the preferred VCS of > > choice for most programmers. > > Ah, too bad. I never got around to really understand how git "thinks" > while I understand Mercurial well enough and, as with Vim, when I > forget something about Mercurial I find it easily and quickly in the > online help. Lately I used "hg help merge" to get out of the > above-mentioned "mess" and it seems more or less OK. If you retire the > Mercurial repository I shall have to scrap what I have and start again > from scratch with a fresh clone of the git master. I daresay I am not > enchanted with the prospect.
I rarely need bleeding-edge features, and James McCoy keeps the Debian version more than close enough to the latest for my needs (Thanks, James!), so I have only built from source a small number of times in the past decade. In the early years, before Vim had a public Mercurial repo, I was building from source more often. However I, too, strongly prefer Mercurial over Git. Git is the most over-engineered piece of software from this millennium. One of its most touted features, the index, is really its biggest wart and hindrance to usability. Almost anything you want to do is simpler to understand and at least as simple to do in Mercurial. In another part of this thread, someone suggested sourcehut.org. I hadn't heard of them, but from their website, I think it might be work a try. ...Marvin -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_dev/ZOdYA8nHPeItm7WG%40basil.wdw.
