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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 12:37:24 JST mcc

   Okay so

   A quirk I have is I don't like it when IDEs interface with my version control system. That is MY version control system. Don't touch my stuff, IDEs

   But! I have another quirk, which is that I don't like git, and I use Mercurial for everything

   And the quirks cancel each other out! I check my projects out in Mercurial, which is obscure, so IDEs don't support it, so their VCS integration fails and I am happy

   Until

   This month, in the new version

   Android Studio added Mercurial support!!!

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 12:37:21 JST mcc

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     • Tóth Gábor Baltazár

     @tthbaltazar because the interface for git is a medieval torture device and git's command line interface is so deeply intertwined with its file format that all attempts to make an alternate or wrapper interface just wind up being the command line interface with fewer handles on critical components

     git is constantly printing the most bizarre error messages in the least helpful way

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     Tóth Gábor Baltazár (tthbaltazar@chaos.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 12:37:23 JST Tóth Gábor Baltazár

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     @mcc
     I tried looking at what the difference is between mercurial and git and couldn't find anything

     why do you prefer mercurial over git?

     Paul Cantrell repeated this.
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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 12:38:39 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @mcc
     How is Mercurial these days? I liked it way back when, but git took over and I had to relent and just use it, and haven’t touched hg in years.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 12:44:16 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @mcc It’s been a decade at least. (!) I do hope I have occasion to use it again. My memory is loosely “same features as git, but with less stupid names.”

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 12:44:17 JST mcc

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands Hasn't really changed much in years. Depends on when you stopped using it I guess? They replaced the janky "branch" feature with something called "bookmarks" which is much better, and then they tried to introduce something called "phases" that doesn't really add anything and I've never heard of anyone using.

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 12:44:17 JST mcc

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @inthehands Someday I will write a tutorial. I believe for it to be really good you have to turn on three or four plugins which are shipped by default but off by default.