Do I know anyone using Mercurial for decent-size professional dev teams?
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Do I know anyone using Mercurial for decent-size professional dev teams? I’m being asked to evaluate a proposal for switching and I’d like to hear from a couple people who aren’t selling something and can give a sober account of where it’s good and where it struggles in the real world.
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Do I know anyone using Mercurial for decent-size professional dev teams? I’m being asked to evaluate a proposal for switching and I’d like to hear from a couple people who aren’t selling something and can give a sober account of where it’s good and where it struggles in the real world.
@calcifer Switching from what, exactly? From Subversion? Yes, absolutely, do that ASAP. From Git? No way. Mercurial is fine, and I'm sure it has some things it does better than Git. But you're going to be in for a world of pain everywhere else. GitHub and GitLab and Forgejo don't support it. No common tools support it nearly so well as they do Git. Your devs *will* have to use Git sometimes to manage 3rd-party deps. 99% of your devs will hate having to learn a non-Git VCS.
I wouldn't do it.
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@calcifer Switching from what, exactly? From Subversion? Yes, absolutely, do that ASAP. From Git? No way. Mercurial is fine, and I'm sure it has some things it does better than Git. But you're going to be in for a world of pain everywhere else. GitHub and GitLab and Forgejo don't support it. No common tools support it nearly so well as they do Git. Your devs *will* have to use Git sometimes to manage 3rd-party deps. 99% of your devs will hate having to learn a non-Git VCS.
I wouldn't do it.
@tek we have an amalgam of different systems (some open and others not) and the CTO wants to unify everyone. There’s a big git camp and a small but influential hg camp, and I’m being asked basically to bring some sanity to the conversation.
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@tek we have an amalgam of different systems (some open and others not) and the CTO wants to unify everyone. There’s a big git camp and a small but influential hg camp, and I’m being asked basically to bring some sanity to the conversation.