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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.

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lists.mercurial-scm.org [PATCH] grep: restore usage of --include/--exclude options
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Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱

@JordiGH try contributing to OpenBSD. They are on CVS.

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Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱

@JordiGH they still have a large git underground following among devs.

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JordiGH

@dimpase Barbarians at the gates.

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JordiGH

@dimpase Also, are we talking git-git, or game-of-trees?

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Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱

@JordiGH well, yes, there are these goths, erm, gots, there, too... But, often patches mailed to the ports tree start with "diff --git" 🙂

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Dima Pasechnik 🇺🇦 🇳🇱

@JordiGH I've taken a walk on the git side - and, well, you can checkout any time, but you can never leave. I don't get it any more how people can use all these cvs, svn, bazaar, while there is one git to rule them all.

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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@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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…might work for coffee…

@lanodan
Pff
Fossil-scm. Everything else is just trying to be a glorified lightweight database ;)
@JordiGH

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LEdoian
@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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JordiGH

@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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JordiGH

@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?

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Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
@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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