Re: [PLUG] Revision Control for the Rest of Us

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

On 11/15/2017 04:35 PM, Thomas Delrue wrote:
> On 11/15/2017 04:19 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > The cartoon sums up git relatively well.  It is a brilliant data
> > structure masquerading as an application.  You really need to grok the
> > former to get much use from it.
>
> And that's why I prefer Mercurial over git...because it 'gits' out of my
> way...

Yes, to do anything non-trivial in Git you need to understand way too 
much of the guts.  And those guts don't abstract to a mental model well 
(arguably, at all).  Chainsaws and razorblades.  And damn it, mutable 
history is a BUG not a feature (unless your project is at the scope and 
scale of the Linux kernel)!

I'll cover Git, Hg and Bazaar, which it turns out is not quite dead yet, 
that's something I need to update.  I very much like Bzr for the tools. 
And etckeeper & meld which are both related and awesome.

Later,
JP
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