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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.
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AKA the commands actually make sense, and they have sane defaults so you don't have to remember 100+ random flags.
People always claim this in mercurial posts, but it's really hard to tell to what extent this is just that people who are using hg all the time are familiar with the hg commands and so don't notice the problems any more. As a irregular hg user, I frequently run into (or help others with) issues with the ui, like "why does `hg log require `-f` to do something useful", "how do I refer to the current head commit (protip…
Doesn't it seems like a bit of an abuse of language to refer to former bitbucket users as "refugees"?
Doesn't it seems like a bit of an abuse of language to refer to former bitbucket users as "refugees"?
no, because like real-world refugees, we are left to flee Atlassian without an obvious place to relocate.
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Bitbucket may have better styles, but its load times are atrocious.
Everything from Atlassian is slow. Tried Confluence lately?
This looks suspiciously like a spam campaign to fish for users desperate enough to go anywhere but bitbucket.
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Which users?
The ones that usually flock to platforms. Course then you have classic reddit and 4chan which had pretty simple designs.
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Then why not make the tool open source + standalone and compatible with other alternatives like GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/Gogs/etc. so the users can pick the competitor or tool they like?
OMG dude, just let it go. You've dug your heels in so much that HN won't even let me reply to your latest comment because you've hit a depth limit. This is just a marketing page. It wasn't sent to you as an email. Nobody erected a billboard outside your house. It's on the internet, where people are free to create and ignore stuff as they please. Do you really think you're bringing something to the table at this point…