Re: [Sks-devel] Bitbucket?

[Phil Pennock]

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On 2012-05-26 at 17:35 -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> Just for my own idle curiousity, if the complaint about google code's
> hosting is that its pull request architecture is inferior, wouldn't
> that be a criticism of mercurial itself?

Since we're off-topic from SKS itself and since you ask, I'll give my
point of view, as one of the people supplying patches for SKS.

Github became so popular simple because its pull request architecture is
better than that of bare git.  Github was not the first git hosting
service.

Mercurial's git-like modes of operation are equally capable, and IME
somewhat nicer -- the tools weren't written to make ability to use the
supplied command-line tools be a display of geek machismo.

I recently worked on a Mercurial-based project and it was a pure delight
compared to git.  Try this:

  hg help revsets | less

Look at your git command-line tools.  Look at mercurial.  Look at git.
Weep.  Even if you're a man.

(I use git.  Quite a bit.  I use the branches, I have git-foo tools I
 wrote myself for the project I use git for (Exim).  I can handle it,
 but that doesn't mean I have to like the standard porcelain or the
 culture which combines "write your own if it's a problem" with
 snooty disdain for those who note the issues.)

- -Phil
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