Ask HN: Have you used an alternative to Git?

4 points by kaamkiya 1 year ago | 5 comments

Does anybody here actually use a version control system that's not Git? Why? I'm curious about how you find it and the drawbacks and advantages.

speleolinux 1 year ago |

I prefer Mercurial. It's easier to teach to non-programmers and it has a less confusing cli. Git has a terrible mess of cli options. I have also used Fossil and that is very nicely designed. Played a bit with bzr and darcs in the past. For many users Mercurial or Fossil would be the better tool for them than Git. Also checkout EasyMercurial, it's a suburb GUI for Mercurial.

mmphosis 1 year ago |

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki

kaamkiya 1 year ago | |

Oh, I think I've seen this. If I remember correctly SQLite uses it.

Thanks.

triilman 1 year ago |

every one talking about jujutsu. learning git from jujutsu more easy than using git directly. it is more convenient. I just want using it for my project in future.

gus_massa 1 year ago |

Not exactly what you asked, but I use TortoiseGit and Git Cola 99% of the time and the CLI only for weird stuff (after making a back up branch).