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   JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:38:26 JST JordiGH

   It is the year 2024. Civilisation has progressed little in the last 20 years. Git gangs rule the streets and all the code. There is scant hope of using any other version control system.

   One quiet Friday night, I gently submit a bugfix to Mercurial. I am not completely alone. Yet.

   https://lists.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2024-February/297858.html

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 10:38:25 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @JordiGH Mercurial? Heh that one is fairly well known, just not used much.
     
     Now, who remember GNU Bazaar? (Note: Died with py2→py3, got picked up by breezy)
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     JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 11:30:33 JST JordiGH

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @ledoian @lanodan I've seen one usage of darcs: in the beginning, it was popular to try it on Haskell code. The geordi C++ IRC bot was originally on darcs until one day when darcs had a problem and the maintainer switched to git (I don't remember the problem).

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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 11:30:36 JST LEdoian

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan @JordiGH I wonder how much darcs is alive. It has last release from 2022 and I don't think I have ever seen a software using it as the VCS.
     
     (And I do remember that bzr existed, never used it though.)
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 11:35:21 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @JordiGH Probably too ~new for this one, started developing stuff in 2012 where the evil one would be more like GitHub, which barely anyone really goes against.
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     JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 03-Feb-2024 11:35:22 JST JordiGH

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan I tried bzr once. It had some good ideas.

     Remember when we were afraid that Canonical was going to eat the world with proprietary Launchpad and force us all to use bzr?