Mercurial match the options?

[Gregory Szorc]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 7:07 AM bo0od <bo0od at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi There,
>
> i have sent this request before through the mailing list using susimail
> before, but it seems that im not receiving the replies back. Thus im
> using this email instead. I hope i did not disturb the mailing list.
> sorry for inconvenient:
>
> "
> Im from I2P community and our developers using Monotone to develop the
> famous anonymous protocol I2P (or the invisible internet project).
>
> Sadly monotone project died since 4 years ago, so we want to have
> alternative.
>
> our conditions to make the development software to work well (specially
> with I2P) , to have these criteria:
>
> - supports resume
>

Supporting resume is difficult in the existing Mercurial wire protocol.

The good news is we are actively rewriting the wire protocol from scratch
and the new design is intrinsically much more compatible with resume. I
anticipate that resume will be implemented shortly after the new wire
protocol is stabilized, which hopefully is some time in 2019.


> - key signed checkins
> - revocation of keys/trust function implementation
>

This is a hard problem. And Monotone arguably has one of the better
solutions of any VCS.

We have some notes at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/CommitSigningPlan
for where we could potentially go here. But we haven't made any firm
decisions. Nor have we prioritized the work. The feature will likely come
into existence when someone is willing to spend the time to implement a
feature. Until someone is lined up to do the work, I'm not convinced it is
worthwhile to spend the (considerable) time to design a solution.


> - easy migration of mtn history into new system
>

`hg convert` supports ingesting data from a number of VCS systems. It has a
source for Monotone. How well it works, I'm not sure. Given Monotone's
relative age and popularity, I'm guessing it may be a bit slow and buggy.
Patches to improve it will be welcomed.


>
> does Mercurial support these options? if no, is it on the road map? if no,
> then why not?
>
> Thank You!"
>
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