On 11/22/2014 11:13 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: >> On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:49 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> >> I took the git knowledge I acquired by necessity at Red Hat and >> figured out how to apply it to hg. All the same features are there in >> hg, they're just switched off by default (mainly because the core >> Mercurial devs are adamant that any potentially history destroying >> operation in a version control system must be opt-in).
If you could find the time to write up something about that I'm sure it would be helpful. :) >> We already have lots of potential contributors (if we didn't, review >> bandwidth wouldn't be the bottleneck the way it is today), and the >> functional differences between GitHub and BitBucket from a barrier to >> entry perspective are so low as to be trivial. > > That’s not really true. It’s more than just “can I log in”, potential > contributors are more likely to already know how to use Github too and > are more likely to not want to deal with another site. I know personally > if I see a project is on bitbucket my chances of contributing to that > project drop drastically, even if they are using git on bitbucket, > just because I know that I’m going to get frustrated to some degree. I feel the same way, only in reverse. I've learned hg, and to a lesser extent bitbucket, but have not learned git nor github, and would rather not (available bandwidth and all that). >> Moving from self-hosted Mercurial repos to externally hosted Mercurial >> repos is a low risk change. It reduces maintenance overhead and lowers >> barriers to external contribution, both without alienating existing >> contributors by forcing them to change their workflows. >> >> Proposing to *also* switch from Mercurial to git significantly >> increases the cost of the change, while providing minimal incremental >> benefit. Whatever our personal feelings of hg vs git, and bitbucket vs github, that makes sense. -- ~Ethan~
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