On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 8:00 AM Asher Haig <as...@strong.ai> wrote:
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> Commit history has been 100% imported and all but I think 5 of the previous
> contributors have been mapped to corresponding GitHub accounts. The remaining
> few were difficult to isolate from other individuals with the same name.
Not to be that guy.. but github claims there's 590 commits. hg sees a
few more...
$ hg log -T '{date}\n' | wc -l
6020
> Literally no one uses hg. I know of no projects other than Pidgin and its
> kin. Not only does everyone use git, but GitHub provides amazing tools and
> networking on top of git’s features. In particular, the visual branch
> comparison and merge tools are extremely convenient and allowed me to make
> quick work of a number of old branches that had nothing in them. A few
> branches remain with traces of ancient work that is probably irrelevant, but
> which I have not pruned until we can fully determine that to be the case.
> I don’t know of any reason that projects that Adium utilizes (such as
> libpurple) would have any repository based relationship. If you see a reason,
> please enlighten me. Not intended to be combative, I just haven’t yet
> conceived of a reason.
As I mentioned in IRC. Both projects are under the legal umbrella of
Instant Messaging Freedom. There's no reason why the hosting needs to
be the same and the project is free to do as it wishes. However, it
makes sense to shares resources when appropriate.
> Asher
Thanks,
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Gary Kramlich <g...@reaperworld.com>
