Shipping hg-git by default?

[anatoly techtonik]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Kastner Masilko, Friedrich <
kastner-masilko at at.festo.com> wrote:

> > From: anatoly techtonik [mailto:techtonik at gmail.com]
> >
> > I didn't say that I don't want to use HG. It is just takes a lot of
> hassle to
> > setup it to work with GitHub, which becomes the only platform for open
> > source hacking.
>
> You wrote: "So for me personally there is no incentive to use HG anymore".
> Why do you want to use it if there is no incentive for you personally to
> use it?
>

That's the thing I am trying to fix. My incentive is to waste less time on
fighting with workflow by using tools that provide the best user experience
for me. So far Mercurial was winning. But I frequently patch things on a
freshly deployed box and setting up and tuning Mercurial for working with
Git is more hassle than just launching Git + StackOverflow in separate
window.


> I think you are better off just using Git if you absolutely want to use
> GitHub, because it is highly probable that HG in combination with hg-git
> will always be a crutch compared to the tool the service is built upon.
> Attempts to overcome this by means of making HG more like Git - either by
> making hg-git a default extension or by changing Mercurial's inner working
> - are a waste of time IMHO. Both for developers AND users.
>

It is not about making HG more like Git, it is about making GitHub more
like HG server.
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