Whenever I look at git log‘s man page I get sad. In mercurial almost all of git log’s options are covered by the revset and template system. These systems are general enough that they can be used for lots of other commands besides hg log. On the whole it’s things like this that make mercurial much easier to use from the command line than git.
Yeah, the forest of options Git has for doing what Mercurial does with revsets and templates makes the already bad CLI design even more painful to live with. At least the rest of the documentation would be easier to browse if they had similar systems in place.
Whenever I look at
git log‘s man page I get sad. In mercurial almost all of git log’s options are covered by the revset and template system. These systems are general enough that they can be used for lots of other commands besideshg log. On the whole it’s things like this that make mercurial much easier to use from the command line than git.Yeah, the forest of options Git has for doing what Mercurial does with revsets and templates makes the already bad CLI design even more painful to live with. At least the rest of the documentation would be easier to browse if they had similar systems in place.