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1. drak

   @alblue I just stumbled over your git-hg comp. http://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/03/mercurial-and-git-technical-comparison.html some notes:…

   Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:29:44 UTC from web
   • drak

     @alblue …I have been using hg for several years, and I use rev-numbers: they are a practical way to express commit-relationships…

     Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:33:14 UTC
   • drak

     @alblue …hg rebase can squash commits just like git rebase and the mutable extension can resolve rebase-conflicts…

     Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:49:22 UTC
   • drak

     @alblue …the equivalent to the git index is the hg mq extension: It actually gives you as many staging areas as you want…

     Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:49:59 UTC
   • drak

     @alblue …the equivalents to #git ls-tree and git show are #hg manifest -r <rev> and hg cat -r <rev>…

     Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:50:53 UTC
   • drak

     @alblue …and Mercurial has been providing history-external branches since 1.1 (2009) via bookmarks which became a core-feature in 1.8…

     Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:52:08 UTC
   • drak

     @alblue …and nowadays the equivalent to git cherry-pick is the core command #hg graft…

     Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:52:44 UTC
   • drak

     @alblue …so you might want to update your blog post on #git and #hg (or add a deprecation notice).

     Tuesday, 18-Feb-14 07:53:27 UTC