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0 pointsanton_gogolev10y ago0 comments

Same here.

I think if it was not for the convoluted Revlog [1] format (which makes it impossible to do a clean-room reimplementation of Mercurial Core), we could see a bit more of adoption by having third-party libraries to interface with Hg repositories. It _might_ have been one of the reasons Git, not Mercurial, was added to TFS [2].

1: https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/RevlogNG

2: https://hglabhq.com/blog/2014/1/17/mercurial-support-in-tfs-...

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hollerith10y ago

>if it was not for the convoluted Revlog [1] format (which makes it impossible to do a clean-room reimplementation of Mercurial Core), we could see a bit more of adoption

Alternatively, we could see a bit more adoption if it were available under a more permissive license than the GPL.

nhumrich10y ago

Git is also under GPL, so I am not sure how much of an argument that is.

anton_gogolevOP10y ago

You can theoretically reimplement Git Core by only referencing the documentation, which, according to some sources, does not "infect" the new code with GPL.

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