Fwd: Switch to git?

[Martin Geisler]

Anton Shestakov <engored at gmail.com> writes:

> 2013/11/25 Martin Geisler <martin at geisler.net>:
>> We could check if the user has a large Git config file -- if so, we
>> create a ~/.hgrc file with rebase and histedit enabled when Mercurial is
>> first run :)
>
> Here's my two cents, if you don't mind.
>
> Some time ago I was working on a Debian machine without a configured
> default editor and when I tried to run hg ci, it would start
> `sensible-editor`, and, since it wasn't configured either, it would in
> turn start `select-editor` (both scripts are from sensible-utils
> package).
>
> It looked like this:
>
> ---
> Select an editor.  To change later, run 'select-editor'.
>   1. /bin/ed
>   2. /bin/nano        <---- easiest
>   3. /usr/bin/vim.basic
>   4. /usr/bin/vim.nox
>
> Choose 1-4 [2]:
> ---
>
> If mercurial had something like this --a basic, but interactive,
> configurator-- it would ideally cover every new user's needs without
> the need (from a user) to read about and then select extensions
> one-by-one and (from a script) to guess defaults by his git/bazaar/svn
> config file.

I think that could be pretty cool. Maybe Mercurial could say something
like this when you run it without a config file:

  $ hg status
  M foo
  A bar
  (run 'hg setup' to create a basic configuration file)

If that is put on stderr (only when in an interactive session), it might
be acceptable for our backwards compatibility rules?

-- 
Martin Geisler

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