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by: Lawrence D'Oliv - Tue, 2 Jan 2024 23:19 UTC

So the PyPy project is moving away from using Mercurial for version
control, and embracing Git and GitHub
<https://devclass.com/2024/01/02/pypy-moves-from-mercurial-says-open-source-has-become-synonymous-with-github/>.

This report is yet another example of conflating Git and GitHub: you
can use Git without also adopting GitHub-isms (like their strange
meanings of “fork” and “pull”).

Seems the main reason they liked Mercurial so much is its concept of
“named branches”. But this doesn’t mean what you might think it means:
it means that commits are always associated with a particular branch,
unlike in Git where commits are just part of a chain, and a branch is
simply a pointer to where new development is happening, not a record
of where it happened before.

One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.

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