alt Hacker News> Mercurial wasn't as simple as Subversion.
What? Subversion is by far the most complex versioning software I've ever used.
> Git has so many gotchas, bells and whistles
The Git UI leaves a little to be desired. But inside, Git is basically just blobs, trees, commits, and refs. It'd be hard (or impossible?) to find a conceptually simpler versioning system.
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juvoly • yesterday at 7:34 PM
You're right about SVN's guts vs Git. I should have been clearer that I was referring to the client cli only.
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delecti • yesterday at 8:00 PM
I found that doing anything even slightly unusual in Git was pretty incomprehensible until I learned its internals, and pretty easy once I did. Fortunately as you say the internals are conceptually pretty simple to learn.
Subversion pre-1.5 was a nightmare. Branch merges were by convention in commit messages. To merge 20 commits from your branch, you would do `svn merge -r 125:140 /branches/my-feature` and then note in the commit message which range you merged.
1.5 made that tracking automatic but just shoved it into a metadata field that just percolated through every directory in a project.
And if someone tried to rename a core path? In the distance, sirens.