Re: Mercurial vs. git

[Sergiu Ivanov]

Hello,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:14:40PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 15:21:28 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov:
> > I usually prefer to have a long output than some witty short text
> > which contains some jokes, some vague indications, and no real
> > instructions.  (I don't remember examples, but I've surely run into
> > something like this in the past)
> 
> Among Mercurial users there's the saying "if you need to do anything, just 
> call hg help <command>, and you have your answer". 
> 
> I seldomly see help output as useful as Mercurials. 
> 
> So I think the shorter output of mercurial is an advantage, because
> I acutally find what I search for (quite quickly).

Yes, you are right, of course.  This is because hg help gives you the
right answer immediately.

Regards,
scolobb