[Scons-dev] Hg vs Git

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2016-11-27 at 12:39 +0100, rupert THURNER wrote:

Absolutely no reason to apologise for contributing.

> sorry for posting here, i usually just lurk on this list because i am
> interested in build tools. i doubt that mercurial will die out -
> their
> mailing list seems more busy than ever. history rewrite can be done
> with
> mercurial nowadays with extensions, and will come even more, just
> note
> facebooks "hg absorb" extension. a nice write up about future plans
> from
> the mozilla dev list:
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.version-control/nh4fITF
> lEMk/discussion

In a sense introducing history rewriting is undermining the whole point
of Mercurial in a world dominated by Git.

The really important point in the email, at least for me, is that all
that hoo-ha a couple of years ago that Mercurial would remain a Python
2 application as it was simply to hard to switch from ASCII string to
Unicode strings has gone away and Mercurial will work on Python 3.

Of course if a Rust version really does come out, it may sweep away the
Python version!

Interesting that groups within Google, Facebook, Mozilla, and Unity are
Mercurial hold-outs in the tide of Git, and even fighting back with
movers from Git to Mercurial.

The write up makes it sound a bit like Google, Facebook, Mozilla, and
Unity are single entities where in fact that a many hundreds of groups
all acting independently within the organizations. 

That Mercurial will run on Python 3 re-energises my willingness to do
things with Mercurial. 

-- 
Russel.
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