[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Georg Brandl]

On 12/01/2014 01:05 PM, Matěj Cepl wrote:
> On 2014-12-01, 07:43 GMT, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>> I do not choose tools simply because they are written in
>>> Python -- I choose them because, being written in Python, I
>>> I can work on them if I need to:  I can enhance them, I can 
>>> fix them, I can learn from them.
>>
>> Git uses the idea of small individual commands that do small things,
>> so you can write your own commands that work on text streams to
>> extend git and you can even write those in Python.
> 
> I really really dislike this Mercurial propaganda for two 
> reasons:
> 
> a) obviously you are right ... git is a complete tool box for 
>    building your own tools in the best UNIX™ traditions. Each of 
>    has a ton of third-party (or our own) tools using git 
>    plumbing. (Is there a Mercurial equivalent of 
>    git-filter-branch?  Can 
>    http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension do the 
>    same as git-filter-branch?)
> b) it completely ignores existence of three (3) independent 
>    implementations of git format/protocol (also jgit and 
>    libgit2). How does VisualStudio/Eclipse/NetBeans/etc. support 
>    for hg works? Does it use a library or just runs hg binary in 
>    a subprocess (a thing which by the hg authors is Mercurial 
>    not designed to do)?

Please at least try to get your facts right.

"""
For the vast majority of third party code, the best approach is to use
Mercurial's published, documented, and stable API: the command line interface.
"""
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MercurialApi

Georg