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While I have learned to be mostly competent when it comes to git day-to-day tasks, I still miss hg for it's clean interface design and simplified workflow.

TIL it is possible to add arbitrary "headers" , like 'golang-hg' to commit objects in git.

Recent and related:The Go language's first commit (1972) - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329279" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30329279</a> - Feb 2022 (45 comments)

That Brian Kernighan guy is really ahead of his time. He invented Go before writing the book on C!

> And that’s the end of the story, until we move to a fifth version control system at some point in the future.Is this a hint, or just leaving the door open?

This could be the History of Version Control itself.

While I have learned to be mostly competent when it comes to git day-to-day tasks, I still miss hg for it's clean interface design and simplified workflow.

TIL it is possible to add arbitrary "headers" , like 'golang-hg' to commit objects in git.

That Brian Kernighan guy is really ahead of his time. He invented Go before writing the book on C!

> And that’s the end of the story, until we move to a fifth version control system at some point in the future.Is this a hint, or just leaving the door open?

This could be the History of Version Control itself.

Go’s Version Control History

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Go’s Version Control History

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