All the Google and Facebook engineers who are currently using Mercurial, I want to hear from them how they feel about Mercurial over Git. If they leave GooG or FB, will they still use Mercurial?
Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
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Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#2I did some work on Hg and I liked, but now EVERYBODY is using Git. Very similar systems by the way. I work on iOs apps.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#3Why only Google and Facebook engineers?
I use both Mercurial and Git, and honestly, they aren't that different. Unless you're doing something very specific I don't see why you would choose one over the other.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#4the question about mercurial by "gitdude" is very umm.. leading.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#5Why only Google and Facebook engineers? I use both Mercurial and Git, and honestly, they aren't that different. Unless you're doing something very specific I don't see why you would choose one over the other.
I don't know about Google, but I believe Facebook keeps all of its code in one gigantic Mercurial repository.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#6Why only Google and Facebook engineers? I use both Mercurial and Git, and honestly, they aren't that different. Unless you're doing something very specific I don't see why you would choose one over the other.
I've never used mercurial outside of TortoiseHg. In fact, the only time I've used mercurial is when I was attempting to build Firefox from source before I realized that they do a git mirror thing so you don't have to touch mercurial at all.
I don't know much about mercurial. I use git because somebody said it is easier to rewrite history in git.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#7Why only Google and Facebook engineers? I use both Mercurial and Git, and honestly, they aren't that different. Unless you're doing something very specific I don't see why you would choose one over the other.
I've never used mercurial outside of TortoiseHg. In fact, the only time I've used mercurial is when I was attempting to build Firefox from source before I realized that they do a git mirror thing so you don't have to touch mercurial at all. I don't know much about mercurial. I use git because somebody said it is easier to rewrite history in git.
Why would you rewrite history? Don't be ashamed.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#8heavy mercurial user. all my open source projects are on it. first at Google code (rip) and now on bitbucket.
though i have to use git at work daily. github to add insult...
my finger memory is now on git. and that's where git "wins". the chance that you will be forced to use it and learn the awful laundry list of steps to properly use it (hint, if you ever type "pull" you are doing it wrong) you get your finger memory and then curse when you have to use the simple and more intuitive solutions. damn dumb fingers.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#9Google is working on integrating Mercurial into their workflows, but hasn't quite achieved this goal yet. They are growing their hg team with hopes of replicating what Facebook has done, but they aren't there yet. Check out their contributions:
http://selenic.com/hg/log?rev=google.com&revcount=80
Facebook is almost entirely hg by this point, though.
Re: Ask HN: Google/FB engineers, Do you like Mercurial?
#10Why only Google and Facebook engineers? I use both Mercurial and Git, and honestly, they aren't that different. Unless you're doing something very specific I don't see why you would choose one over the other.
I don't know about Google, but I believe Facebook keeps all of its code in one gigantic Mercurial repository.
Not exactly "all", but certainly the mother load.