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Discussion on: Don't Fear the Rebase 🐮🔔

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hidden_dude

I miss the days when source control was dumb, simple, direct, not confusing, and didn't hide history.

Not a Git fan.
Its not even the most powerful source control system I've used.

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Sean Allin Newell

I've heard good things about mercurial, do you have a favourite tool and a resource you could link to?

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hidden_dude

I liked ENVY Developer in the Smalltalk world. But it isn't available outside that world.
That being said, I would prefer a simple version control system over a kitchen sink solution mainly invented for Linux development that isn't what most of us do.
Simple, with a log that allows you to undo ANY sort of mistake and doesn't hide things would go a long ways to be better than GIT. I don't like that someone can so easily trash other people's work in GIT and that it isn't obvious who did it. (Yeah, I know that branches can be locked to stop such things, but still)