Jörg Sonnenberger

NetBSD and Mercurial
One year later

pkgsrcCon 2018

What about Git?

• Gregory Szorc's High Level Git Problems
• In short: design issues that bleed into the UI and remain unsolved for ever
• "We get tons of new contributors" ...generally IME doesn't pan out

Why Mercurial?

• It can do (almost) all things Git can do
• ...often better
• ...like safe rebase including public colaboration
• Somewhat slower startup, but fast enough
• Consistent UX, slowly improving over time

What's new?

• hgmaster.NetBSD.org and anonhg.NetBSD.org are up and running:
  • hg clone ssh://hgmaster.NetBSD.org/src
  • hg clone https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src
• source-changes-hg@NetBSD.org and pkgsrc-changes-hg@NetBSD.org await subscriptions

What's next?

• pullbundles on hgmaster is still missing, so clones still slower than necessary
• anonssh for anonhg is also still missing
• import evolve into pkgsrc [done]
• documentation, documentation, documentation...

Q&A