[ajross]

This is true, but seems specious. By this definition (development tools that can irrecoverably destroy data in the working directory) you should be flaming against vim too, not to mention rm or the dreaded "clean" target to make.

It just seems silly, sorry. And while I know little about hg I suspect it's not even true: hg will never delete a file it doesn't understand? What about the equivalent of git clean (which I use daily -- it's loss would be a minor hardship and definitely not an advantage for mercurial)?

[jlgreco]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6752077

Understand that I am very pro-git. I'm just trying to be precise here.

[jheriko]

i was too strong with 'unrecoverable'

'unrecoverable in acceptable timescale with acceptable resource' would be accurate.

specifically i found it difficult to undo a merge and found that i was in a team where people had decided to use tools they didn't know enough about to have been using at all.