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> it is a distributed issue tracker for git only

Sorry but you lost my interest completely.

The cool kids can claim that git is the best thing since sliced bread all they want, you will have to claw Mercurial from my cold dead hands.


jordigh
There's b for Mercurial:

http://www.digitalgemstones.com/projects/b/

It's not very active, but it's the same idea. Distributed bug tracking has been around for a long time. I think Fossil also does it and probably has the tightest integration, since it's Fossil.

Veracity[0] also had the same "distributed bug tracking" feature built in. Too bad the Sourcegear guys gave up on developing it further.

[0]: http://veracity-scm.com/

stephenr OP
Honestly BugsEverywhere is a better approach IMO.

Tying an issue tracker to a single specific VCS is unnecessary.

I'm disappointed in HN community for how this comment was treated. I'm a git lover, but this comment is a valid, well (enough) presented opinion. We live on people having different opinions. That's what makes us stronger than other communities!

@stephenr: Well then you'll miss stuff like that. I honestly recommend checking out git in depth in your spare time. Just like learning lisp it will increase your programming skills even if you never use git in production! Maybe you come to love it for the same reason I do: incredibly well done architecture under the hood. It's the first time I could completely grasp what a VCS wants to do and how it's achieving its goals.

chrisseaton
If this tool isn't of interest to them, why are they reading the comments and then going further to bother commenting here though? Why did it ever have their interest to lose it? The very first word in the title is 'git'. If they don't use git then why are they in this part of town?

It's like if there was a post on some other forum about kayaking and I went out of my way to say 'sorry this isn't interesting to me because I'm into cycling and don't like kayaking'. Imagine what it would be like if every HN user went down the front page and commented in every thread that mentioned a technology they don't use 'sorry I don't use this technology so this post is useless to me'.

Yes I suppose it's a totally valid opinion, but it's just entirely useless to offer it here.

stephenr OP
I never said I don't use git.

My issue is with the "only" part - as I said elsewhere, BugsEverywhere has a better approach, that works for any DVCS

icebraining
The issue with the previous comment was entirely due to phrasing, in my opinion. A "Show HN" of an open source project is a gift, the socially acceptable response would be to thank and politely refuse, and maybe suggest an improvement.

"This seems interesting, but I wish it supported other VCSs - you will have to claw Mercurial from my cold dead hands!" would have made the same point, but it'd wouldn't sound like the developers somehow owed something.

stephenr OP
Saying "I wish it supported other vcs'" is like saying "I wish whales could fly".

An impossible situation.

The entire way it's designed to work is inherently tied to git, and thus flawed IMO.

stephenr OP
I do use git, but I don't want to use an issue tracker that is tied to git, because I use mercurial too.

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