Shipping hg-git by default?

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Augie Fackler <lists at durin42.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

[ ] better handling of history rewriting
  [ ] modicum of phases support
  [ ] coping with rewrites on the git side more gracefully
[ ] UI split
[ ] UI polish

None of the items above look like actionable. At least not
without some additional explanation. I am not saying that
I have time or inspiration to do so, but having a checklist
like this may consider the task valuable for some academic
paper or GSoC project.

Need CC.
-- 
anatoly t.
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