FW: Your favorite quote about Mercurial for the new website [Scanned]

Arne Babenhauserheide arne_bab at web.de
Wed Feb 18 05:56:42 CST 2009


Am Mittwoch 18 Februar 2009 12:29:35 schrieb Conor Rafferty:
> Here is the text of my "story" scraped off Experts Exchange, also I took a
> moment to try and remove the site-specific texts. Sorry if it's a bit long,
> that's why I wanted to avoid posting it here if at all possible.

I see some good quotes material in there, and should we need a definite "why 
you should use Mercurial" reference, we could just post this text :) 

One problem though: Are these all your texts, and if not: who are the authors 
of the other parts? And do they allow publication? 


What I found (not all of them necessarily for the site, since I'd prefer not 
to mention git negatively in the site quotes): 

"Its like a panic button - if everyting is going crazy, can I get back to 
solid ground with one simple action? Git fails, Hg (mercury) succeeds"
(note: hg update -C )

"[I use Mercurial because] I have to think of potential collaborators [...] 
and learning curve."

"Found what I needed after 5mins looking at mercurial"

"with 5mins vs 1week to learn it was a walkover"

"Hg is about 10x simpler than git, so gawd only knows how I'd have managed had 
I stuck with git."

"For mortals, it has to be mercurial."

Many thanks! 
Arne
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