[Scons-users] SCons moves to GitHub! https://github.com/SConsProject/scons

[Daniel Holth]

I like mercurial but have had luck with the alternative git UI called
gitless. It fixes some of the worst design problems of git.
http://gitless.com

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 08:22 Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 06:55 -0400, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > critical mass for git and github.
> > Including the many third party services which plug in to github and not
> > bitbucket.
>
> And the local tooling for Git as opposed to Mercurial. e.g. gitg vs.
> hgview –
> the former works nicely, the latter seems broken a stalled.
>
> Atlassian seem to be treating Mercurial as a third class citizen repository
> system on BitBucket promoting Git ahead of all. Buckbucket support for Git
> is
> far inferior to GitHub and GitLab. GitHub has an integrated
> code/issue/wiki/
> system that seems to work better than the equivalent on GitLab oe
> BitBucket.
> GitHub has the "mindshare" as the central repository management system for
> distributed version control systems.
>
> For many people, Git is overall inferior to Mercurial (and Breezy, and
> indeed
> Fossil), but this move was debated long and hard and is I think the right
> move.
>
> --
> Russel.
>
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