[Scons-dev] SCons developer DVCS survey

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 23:12 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> I am 1 of 2 people out of 11 who still prefer Mercurial. OMG. =)
> 
> I wonder why Mercurial is considered bad. Is it just a poor user
> experience with BitBucket or there is something more in it?

There is a lot about Mercurial (and Bazaar) that I like, especially
command lines, etc. Despite years of improvement, the Git command line
still seems something like a Perl script designed to replicate line
noise.

However for me, the Git wins are explicit remote tracking branches, so
that you can see things in gitg, and the transitory nature of feature
branches. I think I am echoing Bill here, but the fact that branch
identifiers are immutable in Mercurial means that Bazaar wins. And
Bazaar effectively got killed off when Canonical pulled the finance.

I still use Mercurial somewhat for personal projects, but these are
default branch only repositories. Much as I really dislike Git in so
many ways, it is a better tool for serendipitous, feature branch based,
multi-repository working.

As for the GitHub vs BitBucket thing: now that BitBucket has switched
to being a Git resource rather than a Mercurial resource, it is purely
down to whether BitBucket pull requests system is better or worse than
the GitHub one, and most importantly whether being on BitBucket or
GitHub is better for marketing.

Apart from not working on Python 3.4+ as well as Python 2.7, SCons
biggest problem is marketing.  

As for issues, I'm afraid I've stopped even looking at Tigris.
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