Mercurial may be easier to use than git, but Github is easier to use than Mercurial. Switching to a workflow where all commits are made to forks and all updates to master come through pull requests largely solves the problems with using bare git.
Which is kinda the problem we're discussing here. Git is far less usable without Github and yet all the workflow niceties that we've come to rely upon are locked up in Github's proprietary implementation. The more developers come to rely upon Github features, the more locked into Github we are and the more difficult it would be if Github were to go away or become obnoxious.
Which is kinda the problem we're discussing here. Git is far less usable without Github and yet all the workflow niceties that we've come to rely upon are locked up in Github's proprietary implementation. The more developers come to rely upon Github features, the more locked into Github we are and the more difficult it would be if Github were to go away or become obnoxious.