Shipping hg-git by default?

[Kastner Masilko, Friedrich]

From: Benjamin Fritz [mailto:fritzophrenic at gmail.com] 
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> What interfaces are better with Git on BitBucket? I thought there was pretty much feature parity between the two. But that was probably from information I read a few years ago. Has that changed?

What I meant is that Git is the best interface to Git repositories, which should be a no-brainer. HG as client via hg-git will always be worse.

As for platform support (aka what features are supported for what system), Bitbucket's focus on Git instead of Mercurial naturally leads to such hick-ups as not being able to create pull-requests on bookmarks for a long time. Granted, they appear to have fixed it recently, but TBH I don't trust them on this anymore. Going forward, there will certainly be features on Bitbucket implemented for Git first, only much later - if at all - poorly implemented for Mercurial, because... market. I don't see them taking Mercurial's advanced features like largefiles or evolution as opportunity to get advantage over Github, unfortunately. Looks like if it is not in Git, they are not interested.

Think about it: their marketing focus on Git, other products they have support Git exclusively, they only recently hired people to support Mercurial (while a much bigger team works on Git). Mercurial already IS a second-class citizen at Bitbucket, just check how long this goes without the slightest feedback: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/3843/largefiles-support-bb-3903 .

IMHO, the Mercurial project should not focus on supporting Git even more, but on polishing features that Git does not offer, like the evolution concept or Facebook's extensions. Otherwise Mercurial will soon be just another footnote in Git's history. It sure seems like it is in Bitbucket's already.

just my 2 cents



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