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Or just use mercurial which tends to do the Right Thing by default more often.


My first thought when I read the title was "Please use mercurial", because git is just a complicated tool that most of the time provides a distraction from real work (admittedly, a tool that gives a wonderful false sense of superiority - "zomg I am 3l1t3 h4x0r because I could finally persuade git to do what I want").

As a hg user I really can't have any understanding when I get git messages like "![rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward) error: failed to push some refs to ...". What the hell am I supposed to do with that? And a few minutes later I find out that in git you can't pull all the branches at the same time. Seriously, just use hg and make the world a better place.


In what way do you think is mercurial's "Right Thing" a different "Right Thing" than what git does (by default)?


In the way whereby nobody ever complains about usability issues like this one.




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