Just curious, what are you using instead of git, and why? :)

Darcs & Pijul as the Patch Theory-based approach eliminates an entire class of merge conflicts which make working in a distributed manner more feasible. These DVCS have good (subjectively “better”) foundations & need better tooling like forges—unlike Git that already has a ton of things to choose from.

Darcs? Fossil? Subversion?

On their home page they have links to some repositories (or equivalent term) on a couple of Darcs hosts.

https://hub.darcs.net

https://smeder.ee

Here's a recent discussion about Darcs, it's the first I've heard of it.

Darcs, Friendly Version Control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43022059 (9 months ago | 76 comments)

Darcs is older than Git

Most version control systems are. At some point Linus said "let me show you how it's done", made git, and there haven't been many attempts since.

i still kind of miss mercurial.

You don't need to, Jujutsu[1] gives you most of mercurial with some additional stuff. And relevant for this subthread, Tangled appears to work with it[2].

[1] https://docs.jj-vcs.dev/latest/

[2] https://blog.tangled.org/stacking