Their CLI is going to interfere with the other `sl` command: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
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Re: Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
#392Could this be a replacement for git-annex?
I'm using git-annex for a while, but its slow and has some quirks.
I would love to use version control on my whole home dir and sync different computers with it.
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#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't blame git, I'm mostly surprised about the social inertia regarding improving it. But like programming languages, pressure accumulate until it's released, I'm sure sapling and similar will make people want to try new things and git will soon catch up.
The social inertia point is an interesting one. It seems like in some areas, like JavaScript frameworks, there is a ton of inertia for change; in other areas, like git, there is a ton of inertia for stasis. Why is that?
Writing the umpteenth Javascript framework might be good for your career. It isn't hard, in fact, it is so easy a multitude of javascript-only developers attempt it on a regular basis.
Occasionally one takes off. Really just a function of how many friends the author has, their stature in "the community" and/or their aptitude for creating cute marketable landing pages.
There is a multitude of people capable of jumping in with hot takes explaining why the new framework is superior/inferior, tweets, blog posts, courses, books and conferences abound..
In contrast re-inventing git is hard. Few people can wax poetic about the differences between alternatives. Even fewer can come up with a new one. The audience is far smaller not to mention skeptical. Less profit in it.
Rather the difference between a new age cult/mega-church and the Catholic church.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
React Native hasn't yet reached v1.0. Or several critical issues hasn't been addressed yet as of now.
React Native, named after their open source project that is incredibly successful, widely used, completely reshaped the front end dev world, etc... Not sure if an offshoot of a world class project not gaining traction is a mark against them.
It didn’t reshaped the mobile dev world though.
Re: Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
#395The biggest disappointment here is surely a missed opportunity to shoehorn a git and sap joke into this release. The utility should obviously be called `sap' and not `sl'.
> git and sap joke
Non native here, could you explain? I know git is a slur and sap is the "tree blood", but are there other meanings I'm missing?
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#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note WhatsApp had 35 employees when they were acquired and Instagram had 13. At that size you need to be productive at managing servers but you're probably not thinking how great it'd be to have a "whole new programming language and source control system" team.
WhatsApp and Instagram at the point of acquisition were simpler than Facebook is (and was), or even compared to what it is now. Once you scale you start to need a lot of engineers to help keep things standing up and everyone on the same page.
WhatsApp had like half a billion monthly active users when they were acquired, that could be considered fairly large scale, no? But I agree with your point in general.
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#397Ah, there it is. I was wondering when this would happen. Facebook used to be involved with the Mercurial community, but it was difficult to work with them. They always wanted to do things their way, had their own intentions, and started to demand that the Mercurial project work the way that Facebook wanted. For example, they demanded that we start using Phabricator and started slowly removing sequential revisions fro…
I switched from git to Mercurial and was absolutely gobsmacked by how much better it is. The only comparison was switching from a Blackberry to an iPhone - everything just works exactly the way I want it to. Yes, I read the manual for git, but I never needed to for Mercurial.
What are the changes that Mercurial has? I've read many times that Mercurial is easier but I've never seen the reasons. The times I've used mercurial (mostly to download a repo) it doesn't look that different, and other than the staging area weirdness I don't find git too difficult.
Re: Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
#398Ah, there it is. I was wondering when this would happen. Facebook used to be involved with the Mercurial community, but it was difficult to work with them. They always wanted to do things their way, had their own intentions, and started to demand that the Mercurial project work the way that Facebook wanted. For example, they demanded that we start using Phabricator and started slowly removing sequential revisions fro…
Fossil is a pretty great alternative to git. https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
Has anyone successfully imported Linux kernel git into fossil? I'm interested to hear how that was done, my attempts never terminated...
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#399In the argument of monorepo vs not, the usual argument goes like this: - It's too hard to scale for a large monorepo! - Google does it just fine! - But I don't have access to Google's tools! So kudos to Meta for both solving the problem and making it available to others. It will be interesting to see how useable it is outside of Meta. I know for example that while Netflix open sourced a lot of tools, most of them wer…
Microsoft uses monorepos, and you have access to Microsoft's tools! They chose to work with Git and amend it when necessary, just like Meta did with Mercurial.
A few years ago they had a Virtual File System extension for Git. Now it's a public fork of Git that is intended for large repositories (several hundreds of GB). It adds a `git scalar` command, see https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/HEAD/contrib/scalar/do...
Re: Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
#400Nooooooooooo. Whatever is to come of my cute animations! [Think of the trains!]( https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl )
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