Re: replace symbolic package on Octave-Forge

[Richard Crozier]

On 07/01/15 23:13, Colin Macdonald wrote:
> On 07/01/15 22:06, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> > Is there anything that could be done to convince you to try Mercurial?
> > It's helpful to have a single VCS for Octave, and Mercurial is what we
> > use for Octave itself.
>
> I'll think about it.
>
> (-) My "other upstream" (SymPy) uses git.
>
> (-) I'm not sure I can handle the mental load of working with
>      both (I use git for other projects).
>
> (+) Maybe being on hg attracts extra help from Octave community.
>
> (+) I do like the more patch-based philosophy of hg.
>
> Perhaps I could experiment a bit with git-hg or hg-git.
>
> Colin

Having had to learn both Mercurial and Git, all I can say is, try 
mercurial, you'll never look back. It's like Git, but designed for 
humans. The 'mental load' you refer to is a Git problem.

Richard

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