On 3/12/2015 12:58 PM, Bruno Sutic wrote:
On Thursday, March 12, 2015 at 8:28:45 PM UTC+1, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
Suggestions are welcome.
It's possible to use a local Mercurial repository with Github, right?
So the instructions on how to get Vim would only need to change the URL.
Github unfortunately does not have support for Mercurial repos.
However, it is possible to use Mercurial locally and push to any git repo with
a tool like this: https://github.com/schacon/hg-git
I've heard that hg-git is ok for simple use, just today I saw in the
mercurial mailing list
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I've been using hg-git to manage Github projects for a few years, and wish it was a
"non-problem". Sample some of the 49 open issues
athttps://bitbucket.org/durin42/hg-git/issues?status=new&status=open to see why it is a
problem.
I appreciate all of the wonderful volunteer work that's gone into hg-git, but
production ready it definitely is not.
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But yes, I think a move to Github would mean more than just changing the URL in
the instructions.
If it's any worth, I'd gladly volunteer and invest time to help with this.
Since suggestions are welcome, I'd like to propose a couple arguments for
moving to github and why would that ease vim adoption and installation for new
users:
- the overwhelming majority of vim plugins are hosted on github. In fact, it seems vim
plugins "exist" only on vim.org and github.
- all the vim plugin managers support short name specification for github
plugins. In short, it looks like the vim (plugin) community is already on
github.
- google trends on git vs mercurial are pretty clear
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=git%2C%20mercurial&cmpt=q&tz=
- google trends on github vs bitbucket are even clearer
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=github%2C%20bitbucket&cmpt=q&tz=
- github.com gets DDOSed occasionally (which is handled really seriously). But
the github pages (web-page hosting) are a separate service and are rock solid
I tried to keep to arguments as much as possible and I hope they make sense!
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