On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:25:18AM +0100, Christoph Lohmann wrote: > I am proposing a migration of all mercurial to git repositories. Git is > mature and used by nearly all major OSS projects. Mercurial has this > slow prototyping dependency of Python, which is annoying and could be > removed that way. Of course git is still(?) adding a perl dependency. I > hope this can be removed from git.
Why not just remove python from mercurial instead? "Lots of nerds use it" is not a compelling argument, unless you are trying to convince us to buy Macs next. > Dpb on IRC showed me [0], which seems to do a near to perfect import of > the old hg history. Anyone had bad experiences with this? It works fine, but you still haven't made sufficient case for switching. > For the web interface on git.suckless.org I am proposing cgit, which is > fast and written in C. Also works well. Does not justify a switch. > How are your thoughts, comrades? Why bother?
