Future of Mercurial?

[Augie Fackler]

> On Mar 10, 2019, at 08:31, Harley Leyton <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> -- The following is written in good faith for frank, honest discussion --
> 
> I began using hg many years ago, back when git had a horrible UI and didn't work on Windows. Since then, git has become fully supported on Windows and the UI has much improved. hg still has the edge for user-friendliness and cross-platform support, but git has almost 100% of the mindshare and market.
> 
> I've been stubbornly sticking with hg for hobby projects, but I almost never encounter anything other than git in the open source and commercial worlds. (I'm aware that hg is used in both, but this is a rare exception.) hg seems to be going very much in the direction of bzr, although we're clearly not there yet.
> 
> I'm interested in more positive - but realistic - perspectives.

Mercurial's community remains pretty healthy, and if you've got a big-repo problem (Google, Facebook, Mozilla, etc) Mercurial will work for you *today*, whereas git will require significant engineering investment.

I'd love to see better interop with git repos using hg's frontend, but haven't had time for that. I also think we're getting close to landing some of our novel history-editing functionality that allows safe collaborative history editing, which will be a pretty big advantage.

AF

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