Re: irt: Re: Core statement on version control systems

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 04:31:07AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 08:07:25PM -0700, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
>  > pkgsrc transitioned to Git in April of 2024.
> 
> Huh?

pkgsrc-wip did transition. Due to the way it is used it has none of the
issues where git and hg would make a difference.

>  > I was going to suggest the only way for Mercurial to have a future was to
>  > adopt Git's file formats and network protocol.
> 
> You can't adopt Git's file format and data model without also adopting
> its core design defects and inherent problems. Nonstarter.

Indeed.

And also "having a future" (whatever that means) is no big point for
our use cases. As long as it works, it is fine.

When it stops working (e.g. if we run into server side performance
issues like apparently mozilla did) and we can not work around by
faster hardware easily, we can move on to e.g. git (and accept the loss
of data for branches, or maybe another option to add that info has
materialized in git by then).

Martin