Shipping hg-git by default?

[Augie Fackler]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:28 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like https://bitbucket.org/ ditched Mercurial:
>
>     Bitbucket is the Git solution for professional teams
>
> So for me personally there is no incentive to use HG
> anymore (even though I really miss 'hg inc`), especially
> when I setup new virtual machine on Cloud9 or similar
> platform to quickly patch and test one of my projects.
>
> But.. if installation of Mercurial already included hg-git
> support, I could still use it to work with GitHub right of
> the box without an additional installation hassle, which
> is, of course, putting me away from that at the moment.
>
> What do you say?

hg-git needs a ton of work to be viable for inclusion like this. It'd
need things like better handling of history rewriting (incl. some
modicum of phases support, as well as coping with rewrites on the git
side more gracefully), and probably also a fair amount of UI spit and
polish.

Even then, I'm not sure it makes complete sense, but it's pretty
academic unless someone wants to invest that kind of time into hg-git
(I don't personally have the time or motivation.)