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Today I converted the WizTools.org commons-lib project from the mini-projects site to a separate project. This involved the migration from the svn repository to a hg one. The sequence of steps I did:

$ sudo apt-get install hgsvn
$ hgimportsvn http://wiztools.googlecode.com/svn/commons-lib/trunk wiztools-commons-lib
$ cd wiztools-commons-lib
$ hgpullsvn
# Edit .hgignore and commit it
$ cd ..
$ hg clone wiztools-commons-lib wiztools-commons-lib-remote
$ cd wiztools-commons-lib-remote
$ hg push https://wiztools-commons-lib.googlecode.com/hg

Recently I posted in Twitter that my favorite DVCS is bzr. Immediately Manish asked me why not git or hg. Here is the answer:

git

I love GitHub. I use git regularly. But when compared to bzr, I love bzr more. Why? I find git’s SHA based version numbering cryptic. The default installation of git does not support command shortcuts (like st for status, ci for commit) which I am used to from my svn days (fact: this can be manually set using git alias).

hg

This choice does not have any rational backing! I did not like odd-sounding hg in the command prompt. bzr sounded more natural to me.