It’s not the mechanism of branching that I prefer.

It’s the fact that Mercurial tags the commit with the name of the branch that it was committed to which makes it much easier to determine whether a commit is included in your current branch or not.

Also, Mercurial has a powerful revision search feature built in which I love (https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/hg.1.html#revisions).

It’s definitely up with Git in my opinion. I much prefer the branching in Mercurial.

It’s certainly very offensive to lump it in the same band as SVN and TFVC.

The only reason that we stopped using Mercurial is that Microsoft used Git in Azure DevOps. I still wish that they’d supported Mercurial instead of or as well as Git.

I really liked Mercurial too. It was much easier to follow branches to find out if a branch included a commit.

And worse than all of those options is Visual Sourcesafe.

They’ll be stopping it for the same reason most Pizza Huts in the US stopped doing it - profit.

We have unlimited salad included as part of the price of the meal in the UK. I’ve never gone back for seconds because I’m there for pizza.

When I was a student, they had a one bowl rule and students did try to cram in as much as they could by building towers like in the article (but nowhere near as impressive).

It’s like if you put a restriction on it then people will try to bend the rules to get more but if it’s unlimited then there’s no challenge.

Or it could be that students wanted to eat as much as possible for their money.

The heated rear window one and the doubling its value one were jokes that we used to make about Skodas before they got good.

Also, what do you call a Skoda with a sunroof? A skip.

We don’t get that lag but we do frequently get it when the camera doesn’t work for somebody.

I really can’t understand the separation between teams, channels and chats. We almost never use anything other than group chats.

Its like if Samsung would remotely lock your TV making you unable to turn it on again because they stopped “supporting” it.

Didn’t Sonos do that with old speakers? I don’t think that it went down well.

If you make a claim like that then you obviously got it from somewhere. That means that it should be easier for you to quote that source.

From the other side it could be very difficult to disprove it because it might not explicitly be stated that it isn’t allowed. It might just not provide the functionality to resell the games. Looking for a source to prove that something doesn’t exist is very hard.