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Yea, that's on our list to fix. The homebrew packaging was the last package to be done, and we were busy tidying up other things in the lead up to launch.

Because we haven't released the server yet, the open source client currently only really supports git right now, so sl init --git is the only way to init a local repo for now. Perh…

You could personally clone a git repo with Sapling and no one would know the difference. When using Sapling with a git repo, clone, push, and pull all use the actual git binary und…

You cannot just start using sl in a git repo. You need to make a Sapling clone of it. But you can make a Sapling clone of your local git repository, so you don't have to clone from…

Sorry! 'one day' is the best I can do for now. We'd love to do it sooner, just gotta find the time. We think, and many of our internal users agree, that the UX alone is a worth whi…

Technically the mercurial pre and post hooks are mostly still there, but I'm not certain we want to support them long term. The existing hook design has some problems. I'd be curio…

Unfortunately we can't really talk too much about that at this point. I can say a lot of effort has gone in on the server side to optimize commit throughput though. One example we …

Unfortunately you can't use Sapling with Mercurial repositories. There are too many differences at this point. This does not use hg-git under the hood. Sapling's internal structure…

We're somewhat limited by what version of clap is available in our internal monorepo. We try to keep things reasonably up-to-date though, so I'm sure we'll upgrade at some point. I…

You should be able to `sl clone ...` your git repo into a Sapling clone and use it that way, even if the repository is not on Github. I haven't personally tried whether cloning lik…

Unfortunately you can't run git commands directly right now, since there is no .git directory at the root of the repo. Under the hood there is a .git directory hidden away somewher…

The code is available to see, but they don't necessarily build in an external environment yet and even if they did we aren't ready to support them being used externally. Hopefully …

Sapling originated from the Mercurial open source project, which was largely Python (at the time). To make things faster and more maintainable, we started rewriting portions of it …

Good memory! Internally Eden eventually became synonymous with our virtual filesystem, so we decided it was better to choose a new name to avoid that confusion.

Hi Hacker News! Author of the Sapling blog post here. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have.