[crdrost]

> Aside: I prefer Mercurial myself, and I hope to keep using it for personal projects until I die (:

One of my favorite stories happened three or four jobs ago... at this job I kept a giant whiteboard that I had swiped from a conf room, behind my cubicle. And whenever anybody asked questions we put it up on the board. We were an SVN shop and someone had asked how Git worked and I was like "do you want me to explain Git, which is harder to understand, or Mercurial, which is basically the same but a little easier if you're coming from SVN?" and they said Mercurial. So that is how for a week or two a set of sketched diagrams sat around behind me describing Mercurial.

So while that was happening, I was in the middle of some big commit, this guy Cal comes over. Cal is, we'd classify him as nontechnical but he's essentially the Product Owner for the stuff I'm building, he's the one whose workflows the software needs to enable. And I motion to him that I need 5 minutes and finish my thought and save and commit and whatever else, take off my headphones and ask "what's up, Cal?"

He has been staring at the diagram for those minutes, bored, and this non-technical user says, "okay, so let me see if I got this straight, inside some folder there's another folder named dot-h-g that is a repo..." and goes on to explain everything about Mercurial from a simple diagram, except that he can't figure out what problem it solves. And so I tell him, "you know how on fileserv everybody has to back up every file by appending a timestamp? software developers use these commits instead, so that every commit tells you who changed it and they have to say why they changed it, and that's how you save it," and his eyes kind of go wide and he's like "why don't we have this?!" and I'm like "you could! let me show you TortoiseHg..." and he really liked it, and of course then couldn't convince anybody to actually use it. (There's a problem where you really need to lock, say, an XLSX file.)

Mercurial is always to my mind the version control system that a typical nontechnical office worker could appreciate just from looking at a whiteboard diagram.

[muxator]

> Aside: I prefer Mercurial myself, and I hope to keep using it for personal projects until I die (: ... > you could! let me show you TortoiseHg...

Same here. I use TortoiseHg daily and propose the occasional contribution when something breaks/can be improved. It is really a project that has been chugging away for more than 15 years now.

[happymellon]

There are plenty of nice GUIs for got as well.

TortoiseGit works, Fork is pretty good but it's a shame that GitKraken is so expensive.

[Fatnino]

You have to pay to use hg in gitkraken?

I use it for git all the time for free.

I liked hg a lot when I worked at a place that used it but I've since just sortof defaulted to git for my own stuff since that what everyone seems to be using.

[happymellon]

Last time I tried GitKraken it did not like anything vaguely private (with git) without trying to charge you a monthly subscription.

I pay for Jetbrains, so I'm not adverse to spending money on software, but I don't like subscription software like this.

[pjmlp]

I miss Mercurial, thankfully ToirtoiseGit is similar experience to the Mercurial and SVN clients, and like a large majority I just fix git issues by cloning from scratch as the famous xkcd comic.