I do not have any suggestions to add to this discussion but I am with Martin on this topic when it comes to not switching. At work we use Mercurial for over a decade, I did not ask for reasons but personally I like the Mercurial commands way better than Git. Of course this is purely preferential as the whole FOSS world seems to love Git.
Cheers On Friday, February 21, 2020 at 4:37:35 AM UTC, Martin Blais wrote: > > Thanks for point that out, and yes Github has already been discussed and I > haven't been able to find time to properly investigate a conversion and > keep all the branches and investigate how to handle all the new problems > that will happen with Git. It's not going to be a popular opinion but I > know for a fact that all the companies who know what they're doing are all > still privately choosing to use Mercurial over Git, even today. I haven't > been able to dedicate the time to doing this right yet. > > I have no idea when I'll find time to handle this or anything else TBH; I > used to spend all my weekends coding on this project, but for the last 3-4 > of years I've been focused on growing my career in a new direction and > working 60 hr weeks or more + growing my family. New work on Beancount has > been minimal; I'll eventually get to all those PRs, but that will take > time, I have no idea when. More likely is that there will be a job change > at some point and a few months off will materialize and I'd merge all the > PRs and rewrite the processing half of this in C++ and split out the SQL > code to a separate project with a Beancount plugin. That's what I hope for. > > In the meantime I'm just focused on breakage avoidance (if anything causes > real breakage I fix it right away), because I have no time for coding > outside work and I'm still relying on Beancount several > times/week (obviously, my financial life continues and the transactions > keep accruing daily and that all still gets ingested and investment > tracking and all that good stuff). > > I might just host it back on my box (at hg.furius.ca) like I used to. > > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:27 PM Jeffrey Brent McBeth <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 11:08:06AM -0800, Kirill Goncharov wrote: >> > What about Github? We have an official mirror there already ( >> > https://github.com/beancount/beancount ) >> > I successfully exported Bitbucket repo to git using the git-remote-hg >> > tool, here's the result: https://github.com/xuhcc/beancount >> >> I feel like we've already had this conversation, but >> sourcehut.org has Mercurial as a first-class citizen >> >> Jeff >> >> -- >> "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over >> the man who cannot read them." >> -- not Mark Twain, maybe a southen librarian in 1910 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Beancount" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20200220202731.GC14161%40mail.zoho.com >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/bd86d486-6a4b-48e3-afdc-a894b76e344a%40googlegroups.com.
