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[–] CactusEcho@piefed.social 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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

Mercurial is also simpler than Git and the commands are more intuitive

[–] rezifon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Neither of those observations, even if true, are an incentive for someone to migrate away from git.

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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