This is the price for having one universal tool and for having a monoculture based on it. Separation of concerns (earlier Unix) is still a sound engineering principle. Competition also helps. Without someone stealing their user base, Git will never touch such issues, for the sake of maintaining compatibility.
It might be that it was not the developers who turned their backs at Mercurial, Fossil and others, but the Hubs and the Labs. Maybe JJ shows us a way out of this situation.
I’ve been kicking it primarily with Darcs (still holding out for Pijul tooling). I have been trying to build tooling to help VCS polyculture too which usually ends up being one of the primary reasons folks stick with Git.
This is the price for having one universal tool and for having a monoculture based on it. Separation of concerns (earlier Unix) is still a sound engineering principle. Competition also helps. Without someone stealing their user base, Git will never touch such issues, for the sake of maintaining compatibility.
It might be that it was not the developers who turned their backs at Mercurial, Fossil and others, but the Hubs and the Labs. Maybe JJ shows us a way out of this situation.
score 1 · canonical
I’ve been kicking it primarily with Darcs (still holding out for Pijul tooling). I have been trying to build tooling to help VCS polyculture too which usually ends up being one of the primary reasons folks stick with Git.
score 1 · canonical