Urgency of having Mercurial better presented (in part. new website)

[Georges Racinet]

On 2025-01-24 20:45, Jörg Sonnenberger via Mercurial-devel wrote:
> On 1/24/25 3:09 PM, PIERRE AUGIER wrote:
>> PS2: For mainstream open-source usage, the main issue of Mercurial is 
>> not Python or performance (also because a lot of efforts has been 
>> spent on that). The main problem is that Mercurial is not natively 
>> Git/Github compatible, in contrast with jj. And that even with 
>> hg-git, the UX is not that good, both in terms of memory (2 local 
>> repos) and overall in terms of incompatibility with modern Mercurial 
>> workflow involving topics, evolve and absorb. Getting modern 
>> Mercurial natively compatible with Git servers would be a game 
>> changer, even if it is only for the "simple" things without 
>> collaborative history edition (which is of course incompatible with a 
>> Git server). IMHO, it should become a priority if Mercurial wants to 
>> regain popularity and increase its user base.
>
I concur. There is an important feature in hg-git 1.2b (IIRC) to 
transmit the mapping of Mercurial and Git commits when pulling/pushing. 
I believe Dan (hg-git maintainer) is waiting on user feedback about it. 
If I understand correctly, it would make it possible *in practice* to 
have several people collaborating on the Mercurial side, by avoiding 
them having different conversion results.

> For NetBSD use, I had to recently look at providing the reverse. 
> Providing low-effort access for git users to a native Mercurial repo. 
> Once I have time again, I'll look at providing some actual 
> documentation for this bidirectional bridge.

That is also very interesting. Is it based on cinnabar [1] or something 
else ?

Best,


[1] https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar

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Georges Racinet
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