Mercurial eliminated from Drupal.org DVCS consideration

[Masklinn]

On 9 Feb 2010, at 15:45 , Jeremy Reichman wrote:
> 
> I found it interesting that the open source Drupal CMS has "eliminated
> Mercurial, based on lack of community expertise" for use with the Drupal.org
> infrastructure.
> 
Well it's not completely illogical that Mercurial be eliminated if "nobody" in the core Drupal community knows about it.

> Git and Bazaar are still on the list. Although Git sounds like the
> front-runner, Bazaar is there "since it is capable of functioning as both a
> centralized and decentralized version control system, making the mental
> shift easier."
From my ongoing experience with Bazaar, Git being the front-runner is a good thing. Apart from that, I believe Mercurial would have an easier task in the long run if hg fast-import was completed and shipped with core (maybe even enabled by default, not as an addon) and if hg had a fast-export of its own (rather than a shell script provided by the git folk). Convert is nice but a bit slow, and fast-import/fast-export seems to be fast becoming the linga franca for converting between DVCS.