Future of Mercurial?

Nicolas Pinault nicolasp at aaton.com
Wed Mar 13 07:51:17 UTC 2019


> It's not because everybody use Git that everyone else should have to 
> do. There are still popular projects using Mercurial or even 
> subversion/cvs/fossil. Git benefits from GitHub being unfortunately 
> de-facto opensource hub. Not Mercurial's fault.
>
> Just have a look at the huge contributions everyday. I'm following 
> several other opensource projects and I can tell you that they don't 
> have as far as contributions even though they are used.
>
> Mercurial won't disappear, there are users even in companies (such as 
> Facebook and Google).
>
> Ubuntu is probably one the most used Linux distribution this does not 
> mean Slackware is dead ;)
I totally agree with you.
I use git because I don't have the choice. There are so many github 
projects...
At work, we use hg (with Kallithea). This is my choice and I'm very 
happy with it.
At home, I also use hg. When I publish a repo, I use bitbucket.

Regards,
Nicolas

>
> Regards
>
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> David
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