Anyone not using Git?

submitted by fschmidt from self.programming

For me, this is a quick litmus test to identify non-scum. Git is the worst source control system ever developed and only scum would voluntarily use it. So are there any programmers here (besides me) using an alternative to Git? (I use Mercurial.)

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[–]proc0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Why? Do you mean Github? You know it's open source, and you completely host your own git repo, right?

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

http://www.mikraite.org/Git-and-Tattoos-tp2040.html

[–]proc0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do you hate Linux too? Both LInux and Git started by Linus. I hope you're not on Windows if you're afraid of Git, lol.

Your logic doesn't hold. Avoid everything 99% of people are using? Or what is the reasoning here?

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

While Git is horrible, Linux is only bad. Linus is a mediocre programmer. (I have reviewed his code.) I use a Mac.

Humanity has recently degenerated into depraved moronic scum, so more than 99% of what they choose to use is bad. I simply want to use good things.

[–]proc0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ok, well if you're better than Linus (I guess), it follows you can make something better than Git yourself. If not, then you probably need to appreciate it a bit more, it is a proper VCS. Nothing to say about Github though.

That said, I rarely come across a non-lefty programmer these days. I wish more programmers weren't mindless corporation-worshiping sheep. I miss the days when nerds were the only ones online (before social media basically).

[–]fschmidt[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course I am better than Linus, but no need to make something better than Git since Mercurial already exists. And I am involved in other projects that take my time.

[–]Node 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

undepraved

It's a good word.

[–]iDontShift 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

fossil

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

[–]fschmidt[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Fossil does a bunch of things I don't care about, and that scares me because I always see extra features as something likely to get in the way.

I did google Fossil and some people complained that it doesn't handle big projects well.

We currently serve many repositories on one machine using Nginx in front of Mercurial. Is this easy to set up with Fossil? If this isn't trivial, does anyone have some public server that people can use?