Alternative to sourcehut

Manuel Jacob me at manueljacob.de
Sun Aug 25 10:15:00 UTC 2019


On 2019-08-25 11:39, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>> "LC" == Ludovic Chabant <ludovic at chabant.com> writes:
> 
>    >> I tested very shortly
>    >> https://info.perforce.com/try-perforce-helix-teamhub-free
> 
>    > I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure it's storing everything in a
>    > Perforce depot behind the scenes, and when you push/pull with 
> mercurial
>    > it's just going through some bridge thing similar to hg-git.
> 
> No!
> 
> I run a test. I created a small repository with three named branches
> committed and pushed.
> 
> Then I cloned it. The three named branches were conserved.
> 
> It the git-hg plugin is *now* capable of doing it, I'd love to hear
> about it.

Hg-git can do it.  When converting from HG to Git, the branch name will 
be noted in the "--HG--" section.  When converting back from Git to HG, 
the branch name will be restored.

For automatically generating Git branches out of HG branches, this patch 
could be useful: 
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hg-git/U6RN9unOUBk/O01l_AmhBQAJ



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