If I understand these correctly, I can come up with this mapping between Hg <--> Git
rebase <--> rebase
histedit <--> rebase -i
shelve <--> stash
unbundle <--> ???
purge <--> clean -x -d -f
alias <--> [alias] section in gitconfig
color <--> [color.*] section in gitconfig
progress <--> ???
pager <--> core.pager in gitconfig
I know it's more common today to use histedit, shelve, rebase, etc; but I have personally found the mq extension to subsume all of those (although it's more complicated than the other extensions).
I am genuinely happy with hg when I use it, and find it wonderful as a user, most of the time.
Crecord is great. Someone has made a fork that works on Windows[1]. The regular one is only for Mac and Linux. (Haven't tried the Windows one myself, but I do like using crecord on my Mac at work.)
When will mercurial learn that these things should be default. One of the only reasons I moved to git was I didn't have to hand hold people setting up all the extensions.
Whenever I teach hg, I just give them a template .hgrc and the first lesson is about putting their name in there. It's a one-time cost for any Mercurial user.
The Mercurial dev team is very conservative. The reason some of these extensions aren't default yet are due to bugs or because they don't work well on Windows or because they require the user to learn some advanced usage (e.g. an improper rebase can result in apparent data loss to the uninitiated). Some of these just have a plain yucky UI, e.g. histedit's UI is very close to "git rebase -i". It would be much nicer if it had some sort of curses interface instead.
Mercurial is in this for long haul, and it gets better all the time. As its extensions mature, they'll be turned on by default. Right now, it's a matter of flipping them on.
[+] [-] shared4you|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] aidenn0|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] pnathan|12 years ago|reply
I am genuinely happy with hg when I use it, and find it wonderful as a user, most of the time.
[+] [-] eitland|12 years ago|reply
A curses record extension that lets you commit on a lie by line basis.
[+] [-] nine_k|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] pekk|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] toggle|12 years ago|reply
[1] https://bitbucket.org/jmb/crecord
[+] [-] apples2apples|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jordigh|12 years ago|reply
The Mercurial dev team is very conservative. The reason some of these extensions aren't default yet are due to bugs or because they don't work well on Windows or because they require the user to learn some advanced usage (e.g. an improper rebase can result in apparent data loss to the uninitiated). Some of these just have a plain yucky UI, e.g. histedit's UI is very close to "git rebase -i". It would be much nicer if it had some sort of curses interface instead.
Mercurial is in this for long haul, and it gets better all the time. As its extensions mature, they'll be turned on by default. Right now, it's a matter of flipping them on.