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Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by eager_noob »

quietbritishjim wrote: post #99
ulkesh wrote: post #74

Serious questions... What does mercurial offer that git doesn’t? Is the transition to git difficult for projects currently housed in a mercurial repository?

There are a few good things about it compared to git (and a few bad ones). One I like is that it has an excellent GUI that is cross platform, called TortoiseHg. I know hackers can be a bit snobbish about GUIs but I really think a GUI is essential for version control: flicking through the revision graph in one pane while looking at the modified files in another and a file's changes in a third is much more efficient th…

The gui tools bundled with git for committing and browsing allow doing most things one would require and are cross platform

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by bitmadness »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #104
madmulita wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ git instaweb lighttpd not found. Install lighttpd or use --httpd to specify another httpd daemon. Apparently, not.

You have to install the dependencies of a piece of software to use that piece of software.

Epic win response lol

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by sunflowerdeath »

ulkesh wrote: post #74

Serious questions... What does mercurial offer that git doesn’t? Is the transition to git difficult for projects currently housed in a mercurial repository?

What does git offer that mercurial doesn't? Of course, except a lot of popular hostings. Probably in some parallel universe mercurial could win, and people would ask same questions about git.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by sourcesmith »

zaarn wrote: post #58
ddevault wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tool is open source, and none of the services you listed support Mercurial, so...

But it's not standalone so everyone can use it privately, it only works for your service.

You can run it privately: https://man.sr.ht/installation.md

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by saagarjha »

eager_noob wrote: post #152
quietbritishjim wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are a few good things about it compared to git (and a few bad ones). One I like is that it has an excellent GUI that is cross platform, called TortoiseHg. I know hackers can be a bit snobbish about GUIs but I really think a GUI is essential for version control: flicking through the revision graph in one pane while looking at the modified files in another and a file's changes in a third is much more efficient th…

The gui tools bundled with git for committing and browsing allow doing most things one would require and are cross platform [1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-gui [2] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitk

gitk is a bit ugly, though.

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by lazyjones »

mkane848 wrote: post #115
lazyjones wrote: post #51

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I love the design and wish a sufficiently large part of the web looked like this... Incidentally, it's a bit like HN.

Same, but users think it's ugly and doesn't look "right" or "modern" :/

Lesson learnt: don't listen to all users, have confidence in some of your decisions...

Re: Sourcehut welcomes Bitbucket refugees

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Post by jammygit »

I tried sourcehut a while ago but I found the pull request flow to be confusing. There aren’t actual pull requests but instead some sort of email flow that I didn’t have time to figure out.

If there was a video walkthrough for the process, it would help people like me get the ball rolling faster

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