Time Nick Message 10:33 sfan5 https://github.com/minetest/minetest/commit/0fecd24758f0693cd757566dbcf72b10c7bb6c34 good commit 10:35 [MTMatrix] The scavenging is real 11:02 sfan5 is the description of game mods even visible anywhere in the menu? content tab doesn't show game mods and the "configure mods" tab shows no descriptions 12:08 celeron55 that's how you learn git 12:09 celeron55 (i had never used git before MT) 12:09 celeron55 and for the first half year (or year? can't remember) MT used mercurial, and was only then migrated to git 12:09 celeron55 wild times 12:10 celeron55 and yes, it was hosted back then on bitbucket, not github 12:11 celeron55 back then, there still was competition between version control systems 15:44 dzho funny to think about how we see it as a "competition" because of course there are elements to competition to it, but it's not like a race or a contest 15:45 dzho like, "who is winning the fastener competition: screws or bolts?" 15:46 dzho Meet the New Kid For Clothing Closure: Move over Snaps, Buttons, and Zippers; Make Way For Velcro! 17:27 celeron55 dzho: well, whether you want it or not, by releasing a software tool you are taking part in the dynamic where users pick a tool which may be yours or may be someone else's. the single-word name for that is competition 18:11 dzho variety 18:11 dzho diversity 18:11 * dzho shrugs 18:47 celeron55 it's surprising to me that some big projects are still using mercrial. i looked it up, and e.g. nginx uses it 18:52 MTDiscord The way I've heard it, mercurial isn't bad or anything, it's just slightly less powerful and slightly less complicated than git. 19:36 celeron55 yes it's fine, that's why originally picked it. but that's not enough when git is more popular and more capable 21:19 dzho yeah in no way am I arguing for a switch here :-) 21:20 dzho Heptapod still seems to be a thing, speaking of mercurial 21:20 MTDiscord A switch seems unlikely, but a steam deck seems pretty likely. 21:21 dzho heh 21:23 dzho in another direction, I like to catch up occasionally on the Game of Trees (got) re-implementation of git, done under a non-reciprocal license more acceptable to the BSD projects who I can only guess continue to be repelled by git's GPLv2 21:27 dzho like, the way this point-of-disagreement manifests leads to some anthropologically-fascinating current practices 21:28 dzho ie, OpenBSD still uses CVS http://gameoftrees.org/faq.html 21:28 dzho in short, minetest could have it worse ;-) 21:28 MTDiscord Yeah, they're pretty much stuck there until got is reliably self-hosting 21:30 dzho I suppose I could have inferred this without looking it up just now, that Hg, monotone, DARCS are all GPL 21:30 MTDiscord Considering that the Linux kernel was hosted on bitkeeper for a long time, it's not unprecedented to have software trees hosted on platforms with more restrictive licensing. The level of urgency of fixing that situation just depends on teh project. 21:33 * dzho looks 21:34 dzho BitKeeper was used 2002-2005. So, the kernel used email patches from 1991-2002? And then git from 2005 until now. 21:34 * dzho watches to see who else this turns to dust 21:34 dzho s/until/up through/ 21:39 MTDiscord sounds plausible 21:39 MTDiscord "used email patches" ... they kind of still did even after all that, otherwise git likely wouldn't have so many features related to importing/exporting email patches 😆 21:49 dzho celeron55: but you used DVCS of one kind or another from the very beginning? 21:50 Mantar Bitkeeper was an object lesson in why you shouldn't do that 22:05 sfan5 merging #14892, #14895 in 5m 22:05 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14892 -- Android SDK 34 by rubenwardy 22:05 ShadowBot https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/14895 -- Rename `minetest.register_async_metatable` to `minetest.register_portable_metatable` by y5nw