Comment by zabzonk
4 hours ago
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Atlassian had stuck with Mercurial support on Bitbucket - I don't think they can pretend that switching to git did very much for them. I love(d) Mercurial, and particularly TortoiseHg integration on Windows.
Fossil supports wiki, forum, issues
but thing is, aren't coding agents tunned for git based workflows? many agents use git trees right?
so it's unlikely that any git alternative will pickup from here?
I worry llm will increase inertia and make more difficult to adopt new technologies.
But who knows? Maybe it would lower the barrier instead. If switching to fossil is just one agent.md instruction away and it brings useful features with minimal effort, it might be an easier sell than without them.
After all, the new generation of programmers won't bother learning git anyway.
If they had, I wouldn't have switched to Sourcehut, at least not for a while.
Though at some point I would have realized that Atlassian was the wrong fit for my needs as a single-dev, no-AI project and switched.