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Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement (itsfoss.com)
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[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 5 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Nice! I just don't like that only Git is supported. Mercurial also needs love.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Honest question: why use mercurial?

[–] vogi@piefed.social 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

to anybody reading this, could you please be so kind and reply to my comment if the question is answered?
dont think we have @remindme on here. :)

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

@remindme@mstdn.social 24 hours

[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 1 points 40 minutes ago (2 children)

Having alternatives is always good! And BTW, Git won not because it was better than mercurial...

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 11 minutes ago)

The only thing better than perfect is standardised. Supporting two vcs-systems would mean that a lot of tooling would need to be duplicated for it

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 minutes ago

Sure, at the very beginning of the launch of Git, Mercurial was better/had more features/more mature/etc.

That's just not true after 20 years of mainstream git adoption and development today.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

Is hg-git lacking specific features that you need?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 hours ago

Definitely. The last time I checked, your only hosting options if you wanted to use Mercurial directly were Heptapod and ($DEITY help us) Sourceforge.