Sure, if you want to do it once, but Git still has to compute that information (save for a new-ish cache that is just that, a cache). But that is not the point really, the point is that Mercurial's graph Is the same (topologically) everywhere, which is not the case in Git because branches (and thus remotes) have different names. So saying that a branch contains a commit is not the same as a commit being on a branch. There are a bunch of great properties that emerge from this but it's too long for this comment and I should actually properly write this down at some point this year.
Alphare
joined 2 years ago
Given that Git and Mercurial were both created around April 2005 to serve the same purpose by very similar people for the same reason... I'd say it's fair!
It's still here and very much alive in case you were curious.
As one of the maintainers of Mercurial, I take great offense in this meme. ;)
‘It’s the same daily misery’: Germany’s terrible trains are no joke for a nation built on efficiency
In my experience and that of most of my friends both French and German, that is wrong. The French rail system may have its flaws (it does), but the German one is so much worse
To be fair, running "apt install steam" and it promoting to remove the base packages is a pretty bad bug, and the safeguard they've put in place since that incident in case you remove your entire distro was long overdue. If he were using it in a professional setting? Skill issue, read the output. But he was using it... as a user!