Re: [eigen] git

[Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>>
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