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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new git-remote-hd helper
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:38:16 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> As to the functionality you seek: git-remote-hg found in
>>> git://github.com/msysgit/git works. It has the following advantages over
>>> every other solution, including the one proposed in this thread:
>>>
>>> - it works
>>>
>>> - no really, it works
>>
>> Not for me.
>
> Felipe, an argument along this line would not help very much.
>
> Please elaborate a bit to describe what does not work and where you
> are having problems more concretely.  Even for people who may want
> to see if they agree with your "It does not work", "Not for me"
> alone is too little for them to try out.  Others who may want to and
> are capable of helping you won't know where to start.

Basically what I already described:
1) You need a non-vanilla version of git
2) It's not easy to set up
3) It's not even clear which branch you should be using (in case you
are not using msysgit)

-- 
Felipe Contreras