From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new git-remote-hd helper Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:39:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <1350478721-3685-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano , Sverre Rabbelier , Ilari Liusvaara , Daniel Barkalow To: Felipe Contreras X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 17 19:40:35 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TOXbd-0007Hp-4H for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:40:33 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755431Ab2JQRkU (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:40:20 -0400 Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:53639 "HELO mailout-de.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755751Ab2JQRkT (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:40:19 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2012 17:39:45 -0000 Received: from cbg-off-client.mpi-cbg.de (EHLO client.mpi-cbg.de) [141.5.11.5] by mail.gmx.net (mp036) with SMTP; 17 Oct 2012 19:39:45 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19yZ0BGdDlyL/ireWkYTfD4c1B3hHIoI+rgD7d5Wc 7pomhWg8Qbnhjc X-X-Sender: gene099@bonsai2 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Johannes Schindelin > wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > >> I've looked at many hg<->git tools and none satisfy me. Too > >> complicated, or too slow, or to difficult to setup, etc. > > > > The one I merged into Git for Windows (since that is what I install on > > all my machines even if they run Linux) is rock-solid. It also comes > > with tests. And it requires a fix I tried to get into git.git (but > > failed, since I was asked to do much more in addition to what I needed > > for myself, and I lack the time to address such requests these days). > > Maybe, but who uses it? It's quite a lot of code, and it's quite > difficult to setup--you would need a non-vanilla version of git. Okay, so the difficulty of setting it up is because it is not in mainline git.git? > Compare this: > 32 files changed, 3351 insertions(+), 289 deletions(-) > > To this: > 1 file changed, 231 insertions(+) Yeah, and that's also because of the severe lack of tests. And the lack of possible code-sharing with other remote helpers. As for who uses it: https://github.com/dscho/hg > It would be better to work together, but to me the code-styles are way > too different, the difference between night and day. Aha. Well, okay, it was an offer to collaborate. Ciao, Johannes