Re: Some Bash/zsh helpers to convert away from bitbucket's mercurial repos

[Daniel Shahaf]

Shlomi Fish wrote on Sat, 24 Aug 2019 10:32 +00:00:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:30 PM Efraim Flashner <efraim at flashner.co.il> wrote:
> > Alternatively, for anyone wishing to remain using mercurial, sourcehut
> >  offers hosting of hg repositories. And has a "come on over from
> >  bitbucket" script.
> > 
> > https://hg.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/invertbucket
> > 
> 
> [...] git established itself as the golden standard for now

Yes, that's a good point: when deciding on a version control system,
choosing a more popular one means that (all else being equal) the
average new contributor would have a lower learning curve.

This point is applicable to any shared resource: for example, the
programming language of choice, build dependencies, etc.