Vim is currently using hg, as mentioned in TFA. Since GitHub doesn't support that without some shims, it seems likely that the project will move to git as well. Contributors who prefer hg might well be disappointed by that.
Maybe I didn't understand correctly, but the post doesn't specify whether the project is dropping Mercurial for good or merely changing hosts because of the impending closure of Google Code.
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Why is that so? And how is this relevant to TFA?
Vim is currently using hg, as mentioned in TFA. Since GitHub doesn't support that without some shims, it seems likely that the project will move to git as well. Contributors who prefer hg might well be disappointed by that.
Its relevant because it forces a change to the DVCS used by the project and participants.
Maybe I didn't understand correctly, but the post doesn't specify whether the project is dropping Mercurial for good or merely changing hosts because of the impending closure of Google Code.