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krylon on April 30, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mercurial: Onward and upward

Mercurial was a real eye-opener. Before a friend basically made me try Mercurial, I was using Subversion for managing my private projects, and it was not exactly fun. Especially when I was working on my laptop (netbook, actually, but that is totally OT), away from home, without access to the server.

Mercurial made VCS fun. I recently moved on to Fossil, because I do like the integrated wiki and ticket system for smallish projects, but without Mercurial I never would have gotten there.

I also like Mercurial's hooks. I am not sure if other DCVS support that, but hooks are great. (Fossil doesn't appear to have them)

stevekemp on April 30, 2015 | [–]

I agree that hooks are awesome, I use numerous hooks with git to do everything from syntax check Perl scripts, to uploading DNS zones.

masklinn on April 30, 2015 | [–]

> I also like Mercurial's hooks. I am not sure if other DCVS support that

Git has various hooks (client and server), Darcs I do not know.

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