Re: [eigen] git

[Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

another important issue to me is the ability to manage a svn mirror of
a hg repository. This is because I have set many svn:external to eigen
and I (and users who did that too) do not want to lost them.

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Gael Guennebaud
<gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks a lot for your work.
>>
>> For those who didn't follow today's irc discussion:
>> after orzel's work, one thing is sure, we don't have to worry about
>> git-svn anymore. We have basically 2 options:
>> - either stay with Hg
>> - or convert that to Git (which gael has been experimenting with).
>
> I tried two tools:
> - hg-to-git (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/36601)
> - hg-fast-export
> (http://hedonismbot.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/hg-fast-export-convert-mercurial-repositories-to-git-repositories/)
>
> and in both cases the branches seem to have been "linearized". So I
> give up for the hg to git conversion, and propose to stay with hg.
> However, before we make a final decision I would like we establish a
> workflow with associated hg commands to be sure the hg way to work is
> ok for us (I know hg is not very flexible to that respect in contrast
> to bzr for instance). Since I don't know hg yet, I cannot start that
> right now, but I'll start learning it and fill a section of the
> Developer's corner wiki page.
>
> and btw, thanks a lot to Thomas for his work !
>
> cheers,
> gael
>
>
>> We'll make a decision soonish... initially i almost dismissed Hg as I
>> regarded it as a small, obscure project, until I learnt that it has
>> Python, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Java, OpenSolaris, Xine, XEmacs and some
>> big Google projects among its users.
>>
>> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ProjectsUsingMercurial
>>
>> Given that, in the special case of KDE's SVN, Hg's svn
>> interoperability seems much better than git's, using Hg may also make
>> our life easier in the short term for syncing kdesupport and,
>> conversely, merging commits made there.
>>
>> I'm slightly in favor of Hg now but i still don't have a strong
>> opinion either way...
>>
>> Benoit
>>
>> 2009/5/2 Thomas Capricelli <orzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> Here's another experiment, using so-called 'named branches'.
>>>
>>> http://sources.freehackers.org/hg.cgi/eigen.named/
>>>
>>> The main difference is that the output of 'hg branches' and the 'branches'
>>> part of the previous url now display the name of branches. Also, you can use
>>>        hg up -r <branchname>
>>> to switch  between branches.
>>>
>>> I'm often on #eigen, if you want to test eigen/mercurial and need some help,
>>> just ask.
>>>
>>> I think the most basic test is about cloning one of those repositories, and
>>> then play with 'hg view' (the tcl/tk viewer, much the same as git's one).
>>>
>>> regards,
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday 01 May 2009 22:47:29 Thomas Capricelli wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking into converting the svn repository for eigen2 to mercurial.. You
>>>> can so far follow my experiments on
>>>>
>>>> http://sources.freehackers.org/hg.cgi/eigen/
>>> --
>>> Thomas Capricelli <orzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> http://www.freehackers.org/thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>