[OT] TortoiseGit and Hg

[Nick Sabalausky]

"foobar" <foo at bar.com> wrote in message news:j6pr1r$e63$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> Ok, to clarify, I did not compare Git vs. Hg. In fact I agree that HG 
> provides a better cmd out of the box. Git mitigates this by being very 
> configurable. I responed mainly to your usual rent about new(er) 
> technology that you don't like.
>
> Frankly, I just got fed up with yet another rant by that old guy down the 
> block that just complains about everything and keeps telling us how "back 
> in the days" it was much better.
> How SVN made him happy but he doesn't like those annoying DVCSes that 
> complicate his life.

With that part, I was just making an apperently poorly-worded note about the 
irony of being less satisfied (due to various little details) with what even 
I agree is overall better.

> You sound exactly like Clint in "Gran Torino".

Heh :)

"Boy is my ass sore from all the guys at work." <-- Best line in the movie 
(and I'm sure I butchered the exact wording)

I've always likened myself more to Cranky Kong, though :)

>
> With that attitude you shouldn't be dealing with technology,  you should 
> retire and leave us alone with those new tools that you don't want to 
> learn that we invent for no good reason.
>
> Note: I have nothing against older people, just this annoying attitude 
> that *some* people adopt when they get older.
>

I was just wondering if there was a way I could get the proverbial best of 
both worlds! That's all. (FWIW, the "newer is better, why can't you blindly 
accept that?" attitude can also be annoying, but that's an attitude that's 
much more common in the software dev world.)

Like I've already said a bunch of times, I'm completely sold on DVCSes. It's 
just that it's a little annoying going from "there's basically one ultimate 
choice, SVN, and I can't think of much I would improve (obvously rare for 
me, and therefore highly valued)" to "there's as many as three viable ones, 
and yet all three still have their own annoying little drawbacks which I 
could easily avoid by using one of the other DVCSes, but that just brings 
some other little annoyances, aarggh!", so I keep dreaming about an ultimate 
DVCS that cherry-picks the best (IMO) of each: The GUI of TortoiseGit, the 
simplicity of Hg, the empty-directories of Bzr (I *did* say "little" 
annoyances), a collaboration tool with the speed and compatibility of 
LaunchPad but the interface of GitHub or BitBucket, etc...The ability to get 
by with fewer tortoises on my right-click menu would be nice, too...(It's 
getting hard to remember which project uses which...)