There are a lot of people saying "Github is better than Bitbucket for reasons XYZ, therefore we should move to Github".
The problem is that moving to Github means Bram and the rest of us have to switch to git. The problem here is not git itself, but the switching. The path of minimum modification, and minimum risk of messing something up, is to just go to some host that supports mercurial. The fact that someone has a Vim clone on GH already is irrelevant. Bram would still have to learn how to use git and make his rookie mistakes (which would affect all of us). Even if Bram makes no mistakes, the rest of us who barely know how to "git pull" would still have our workflows messed up, and have to make our own rookie mistakes.[1] OTOH, all of us already know enough about Hg to get by, and the whole thing could be solved in five minutes by creating a BB (or wherever) account and then nobody has to change anything except the URL for the repo. Inertia is, and in this case should be, very powerful; at any rate, it's powerful enough to not be overcome by the mere fact that we have to move hosts. [1] Hg-git is too flaky to rely upon, and even when it does work, it more than doubles the size of a repo, and is really, really, really slow, and carries new dependencies (hg-git itself, dulwich) which break from time to time. -Manny -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
