Mercurial popularity is stagnant

[Matthew Turk]

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Michael McNeil Forbes
<michael.forbes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 1, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 30, 2014, at 1:35 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>>> I'd like to bring your attention to:
>>> http://www.google.ca/trends/explore?hl=en-US&q=mercurial,+git,+github,+bitbucket&cmpt=q&content=1
>>>
>>> It seems to me that GitHub is directly responsible for Git's popularity
>>> skyrocketing in 2009. By comparison, Mercurial's popularity seems to be
>>> stagnant for a while.
> ...
>> I think one thing that would help would be users blogging more about their workflows and how hg makes them productive.
>
> Just a loosely related comment: I am seriously considering switching to
> git because of git-annex. This seems like a "killer app" and I don't see
> any easy way of working it into a mercurial workflow, even though I would
> much rather remain with hg. (I was hoping maybe I could figure out a way
> of using myrepos to manage an annex repo inside an hg repo, but this does
> not seem like a good idea.)  Any suggestions or pointers to a discussion?
>
> Our use case is managing reasonably large amounts of scientific data
> generated from long simulations.  git-annex allows us to tag the data
> with the source code, but keep only the bits we need on local computers
> for analysis (the rest resides in long-term storage, or on the clusters
> where it was generated.)

We're an hg shop that does long running scientific simulations, but
we've avoided versioning data alongside code for this reason.  My
recollection is that git-annex enables multiple different backends.  I
wonder if it would be possible to have the largefiles extension for hg
use different backends?  This would be nicely in lien with the
increasing prominence of object stores in supercomputing centers.

-Matt

>
> Probably not the largest portion of the stagnation though...
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mercurial mailing list
> Mercurial at selenic.com
> http://selenic.com/mailman/listinfo/mercurial