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Discussion on: Let My People Go: the Hg to Git evacuation process.

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circular firing squad captain • Edited

In case it's hard to understand why anyone would put ALL their repositories into mercurial, the short story is that git was really not up the task 8+ years ago. (Or, it kinda worked but you had to MAKE it work.)

A friend wrote this article detailing the laborious decision progression from CVS to mercurial to git.

doriantaylor.com/betamaxed