Re: Google Code: Support for Mercurial and Analysis of Git and Mercurial

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Apr 26, 2009, 10:13 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0904261208000.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200904260703.31243.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Christian Couder wrote:

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> For information, now Google Code supports Mercurial for project hosting:
> 
> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html
> 
> Mercurial was choosen over Git because of this (one year old) analysis:
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/DVCSAnalysis
> 
> There is this article on LWN about the analysis:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/330138/

FWIW some little bird (yes, related to the Google Code team) told me that the real reason was because a certain person important in Git development was upsetting the Google Code team. It _might_ be related to the fact that the original Googe Code team had a substantial involvement in Subversion...

So, don't believe that the reason Git is not supported by Google Code is a technical one (just like it was no technical reason at all for Python to choose Hg over Git).

Oh, and I have to be very clear on some important point: they are free to choose what they want. I, for one, am happy that not everybody and her dog uses Git. That way, we can steal cute ideas from other projects like Hg or Bazaar.

Ciao, Dscho