SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git

Re:SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git by zalew on Sunday May 26, 2013 @02:26PM (#5771945)

> Largely due to the popularity of Github, Git has achieved a much higher userbase, to the degree where we regularly have users requesting us to move to Git so they can provide pull requests.

I am too a Mercurial refugee and prefer Git, but how is that even a reason? People don't want to contribute if it's on a Mercurial repo?? Python seems to be doing fine on HG.

Meanwhile, thanks for your amazing work on SqlAlchemy(&co), zzzeek!

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Re:SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git by gamache on Sunday May 26, 2013 @03:22PM (#5772114)

I think what those users mean is that they want the project on Github. There's no concept of "pull requests" within Git.

Anyway, most Git users aren't Mercurial refugees; I wager we're Subversion refugees and kids.

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Re:SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git by zalew on Sunday May 26, 2013 @03:57PM (#5772222)

> There's no concept of "pull requests" within Git.

http://git-scm.com/book/ch5-2.html "run the git request-pull command and e-mail the output to the project maintainer manually."

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/torvalds_github... "Git comes with a nice pull-request generation module, but GitHub instead decided to replace it with their own totally inferior version."

> I think what those users mean is that they want the project on Github.

that would be even worse. luckily as zzzeek explained below, it wasn't the case.

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Re:SQLAlchemy Migrated from Mercurial to Git by gamache on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:55PM (#5772396)

Wow. I had no idea about git pull requests, so I even googled it, and didn't see it on page one. My mistake, thanks!

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