On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 10:30 PM, Zhuoyun Wei <wzy...@wzyboy.org> wrote:
> 2018-03-27 20:52:48 Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca>: > > That's unfair. The fact that you're unfamiliar with it doesn't mean it's > a pain. > > Perhaps it's a pain for you now, but imagine the pains of a Mercurial > user wrangling some of the crazy problems which > > occur frequently with Git (much worse). > > > > I'm not going to once again go over the technical reasons for this, but > Mercurial is in many ways a success over Git, > > which is why some of the larger integrations have chosen it over Git > (e.g. look at what Facebook has done, and I'm > > aware of other such large integrations and have discussed the details > with some of the developers carrying them out at > > a conference, they're convincing technical reasons). Don't let your OSS > perspective skew your vision. Github might be > > more popular, but so was VHS. > > I am not trying to start a flame war, but I would like to point out that > choosing a popular tool/platform attracts more developers. > "Attracting more developers" is not an explicit goal of the project, though "attracting more developers who write very long and thoroughly thought-out suites of unit tests for very small and contained changes worked and reworked again from all the findings found from aforementioned laboriously written unit tests covering most of the cases" is quite useful. Do you believe moving to github would result in more unit testing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhP_w7uNUWVA8Cdi%2BUTn7Lb6cgKBcbQCizKqE%3DONHvpcDg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
