http://ayende.comAyende @ RahienCopyright (C) Ayende Rahien 2004 - 2021 (c) 202660It doesn't matter if it's faster, more flexible and more powerful if it destroys your repository periodically. Like I said the other day: Mercurial saved me after Git fell over on me. http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment17http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment17Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:13:40 GMTgit is faster, more flexible and more powerful. It's the old UX problem of easy to use vs. more productive. For some git is better, for other hg is better. End of story. http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment16http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment16Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:42:37 GMT@ configurator > I became a Mercurial fanboy the moment I started using it for the first time. The same with me, and few more persons I know. It seems the best answer to some Git fans is "just try it - I'm sure you didn't". Hmm, they immediately dropped few hateful comments in by blog :\ http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment15http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment15Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:38:02 GMTYeah 'git archive' sounds like subversions 'svn export' feature - you can checkout a working copy without all of the .svn/.git folders. http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment14http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment14Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:05:05 GMTWow.. Hg fan boys :) I think VSS is easy to understand :) http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment13http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment13Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:36:12 GMTJust a note: if you need a zip/tarball of tree, you can just use 'git archive' http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment12http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment12Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:53:00 GMTSo I got few more reasons for my initial assumption: Hg rules, Git sucks (details are here: [blog.alexyakunin.com/.../...or-do4-git-versus.html](http://blog.alexyakunin.com/2009/09/selecting-vcs-for-do4-git-versus.html) ). Btw, so far I didn't face any real issue with Hg - even although we have a pretty complex case with migrating changes from Subversion repository to it. http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment11http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment11Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:52:29 GMT@ configurator i am using hg, too and also think that is a lot friendlier than git which has a certain stoneage flair to it :) - but it does not shield you from your stupidity. I once applied a grep action on a solution directory, forgetting to exclude the .hg from it. Well, needless to say, I completely foobar'd my working copy holding a full day of work. It took a lot of sweat to rescue some of that... http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment10http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment10Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:47:40 GMTTalking about shift+delete... It's nice to configure recycle bin (right click->properties->some checkbox) NOT to ask confirmation on deleting something and develop a habit to use del instead of shift+del. http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment9http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment9Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:06:43 GMTKudos for discovering the problem ;) http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment8http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment8Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:01:11 GMTThat's why I use total commander and always search for the exact regex ^bin$|^obj$ . That said, Mercurial is incredibly better than git. I became a Mercurial fanboy the moment I started using it for the first time. http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment7http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment7Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:03:38 GMTTry "git clean" instead. http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment6http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment6Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:39:24 GMTHeh! I've done that on OS X $ rm *;o zsh: command not found: o $ # fuuuuuuuuu http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment5http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment5Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:25:20 GMThehe, Oh yeah, Shift+Del is *teh* fun... :) http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment4http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment4Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:16:47 GMTShift delete is more fun http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment3http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment3Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:51:58 GMTWhy not to zip new clone of the repo (all crap should be in .gitignore already) http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment2http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment2Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:28:23 GMThaha :) http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment1http://ayende.com/4419/git-is-teh-suck#comment1Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:10:36 GMT