Announcing Mercurial sprint in London, May 27-29th
5 points by mk12
5 points by mk12
I'm curious what distinguishes Mercurial from Git in 2026 that might explain continued efforts like this. I quit fighting the tide at least a decade ago, maybe a little more, but I'm curious if anyone can put into words what the "killer apps" or whatever are that are keeping the momentum going here.
mercurial still has a clean, direct interface. without a quality alternative as benchmark, git would probably be worse. last but not least, "hg serve".
i am relly happy that things keep going. i also hope that this hackathon is about working on mercurial on mercurial terms, and not chasing features from git.
I used Mercurial for many years, and loved both the CLI experience and the customizability. I switched to Git when ButBucket stopped Mercurial support and I discovered that hg-git sometimes would just stop working on a repository. It felt like a step down (was missing hg histedit, hg absorb), but now with jj I fell that I have the next generation of Mercurial with no downside.