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Re: new Mercurial client? [message #1745064 is a reply to message #1745014] |
Tue, 04 October 2016 17:46 |
Ari Meyer Messages: 13 Registered: July 2016 |
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Thanks for the details, Christian. I still think it would be worthwhile investigating what common core could be extracted from eGit. It's strange to me that, in the spirit of Eclipse, which exposes such a generic Team Provider interface, we can't put together some generic foundation for DVCS's. I don't know much about Bazaar, darcs, etc., but at least there should be much commonality that could be exploited between Git and Mercurial.
Obviously, Git dominates the DVCS mindshare now, with GitHub, etc., but there are innumerable open source projects using Mercurial, including Mozilla and OpenJDK, and many companies using it, including https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ . Why we can't have a first-class Team Provider for Mercurial, aside from lack of resources, is beyond me.
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Re: new Mercurial client? [message #1746446 is a reply to message #1746420] |
Sat, 29 October 2016 02:42 |
Ari Meyer Messages: 13 Registered: July 2016 |
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Thanks, Matthias. I had first looked here: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/mercurialeclipse , and it looks pretty bleak. I used the tool several years ago, and it was buggy, as many have mentioned. It certainly doesn't get the industry support that I assume eGit gets, or at least community, developers, and mindshare. I guess I still don't understand how a tool like eGit, for which I have to presume a very high percentage of the code is for the UI, can't share that UI code. The underlying DVCS calls would obviously be completely different, but conceptually, they are incredibly similar tools, and I would presume that much of the Eclipse UI code could be shared. Am I completely off here?
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