On 06-04-2016 18:50:56 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 11:04:59AM -0700, David Champion wrote:
> > OK - that's a good track to have. The thing that made me think otherwise
> > was the removal of hg-related components.  Kevin has the final say now
> > but we've never discussed moving to git, and I don't see what doing
> > so would accomplish particularly other than allow/make people use one
> > hosting system instead of another.
> 
> I'm actually not as against this as you might think.  It's pretty clear
> git has won the popularity war, and there is some benefit in using a vcs
> that most developers are familiar with.
> 
> However, there are some strong arguments for not changing.  Our
> infrastructure and workflows are working quite nicely (thanks Brendan!),
> and I'm not anxious to redo them all.  Mercurial is easy to use, and I'm
> skeptical it's *that* hard for anyone who's used git to pick up the
> basics.  (Going the other way isn't quite as easy, imo).  Our history,
> tickets, and changelog entries often reference mercurial changesets,
> which would be a loss (not insurmountable, I know).  Also, Mercurial is
> still under active development.
> 
> If the pluses and minuses started to weigh heavily against Mercurial,
> I'd be open to the discussion, but I don't think we're there just yet.
> For now I'd suggest keeping focused on maintaining and increasing the
> project momentum.

Maybe this helps some people:

  https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg

I haven't used it myself though.

Thanks,
Fabian

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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