yeah, I thought it was Python (that influenced their decision) also.
On Apr 24, 2:10 pm, Ted Pavlic <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought some people on this list might find this interesting:
>
> Google Code Blog: Mercurial support for Project Hosting on Google Code
>
> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for...
>
> ======
> We are happy to announce that Project Hosting on Google Code now
> supports the Mercurial version control system in addition to Subversion.
> This is being initially rolled out as a preview release to a few invited
> users on a per-project basis, so that we can iron out the kinks before
> making this available to the general public.
> ======
>
> ======
> While there were several DVCSs that we could support, our decision to
> support Mercurial was based on two key reasons. The primary reason was
> to support our large base of existing Subversion users that want to use
> a distributed version control system. For these users we felt that
> Mercurial had the lowest barrier to adoption because of its similar
> command set, great documentation (including a great online book), and
> excellent tools such as Tortoise Hg. Second, given that Google Code's
> infrastructure is built for HTTP-based services, we found that Mercurial
> had the best protocol and performance characteristics for HTTP support.
> For more information, see our analysis.
> ======
>
> (on a different note, Python recently decided to move to Mercurial)
>
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