Promoting the use of Mercurial; was: Re: gnome dvcs survey results

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Freitag 09 Januar 2009 10:18:53 schrieb Matt Mackall:
> On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 20:48 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > In any case, once there is a push/pull support bookmarks, I would
> > claim that the design for a bidrectional hg/git gateway is simple
> > enough that it could be implemented as Google Summer of Code project;
> > and I'd be willing to mentor a student who was interested in working
> > on such a project.
>
> Maybe. There are a number of places where schemas are different enough
> to make hash-preserving round-tripping between git and Mercurial
> difficult:

These don't look much harder than the problems to solve for a svn gateway. 

Sure, it won't be a direct copy, but it doesn't have to be. 

It only has to give me the ability to work with hg and push my changes into a 
git repository - if necessary with a bridge hg repository in between. 

That way projects which choose git can still have developers using hg - for me 
it would mean I wouldn't be forced to use git for working on the Hurd wiki. 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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