Branches are distinct.

Let’s say you have a main and a dev branch, and you periodically merge dev into main. Because of fast forwarding (on by default) the main branch is completely gone from the history. If you then add bug fixes and project branches it becomes a tangled mess really quickly and it’s nearly impossible to understand the structure by looking at the tree.

On mercurial every branch is named and distinct forever. You don’t have to try to understand what happened to the project since it’s obvious by looking at the tree.

Now there are ways to have a clean git history, but afaik you either need to make sure nobody ever messes it up or have everyone rebase everything and only keep the history of the main branch.

When working in a hyper structured organization that may work, but for more casual developers (scientists, students) that aren’t system experts and where you have messy history, mercurial default settings are less confusing, easier to learn and produce better results.

It makes the history clearer.

Surely it could be rewritten in Fortran if performance is really a concern.

No, git has labels on heads of branches. Once the head moves you loose the information. It also makes for a more messy history, which I believe created the whole “rebase everything” philosophy to cope.

Care to explain your comment for a layman?

From my limited experience mercurial is way more intuitive than git. The big one is named branches are a thing instead of an abstraction.

Yeah that got me too!

I feel that it’s his general philosophy

That’s bullshit and you know it. Evil is not a prerequisite for free will.

Then it’s not omnipotent. That’s literally the first point

I do the same but Egyptian

I use Egyptian gods!

School kids have to swear allegiance to it every day. Of course USians are obsessed with the flag.

Start setting one up.

Smokers.

To a point, yeah. But when it’s -40 outside, heating to 18 or 21 doesn’t make much of a difference energy wise.

Ignorance.

Not with the conservatives in power

A check is more convenient than cash. I can deposit it with my phone.

I recommend the movie “the wave”. Loosely based on a book based on a true story.

Don’t forget light pollution.