[PATCH] misc size-shrinkage; merges

Aurelien Jacobs aurel at gnuage.org
Sat Aug 19 14:24:18 UTC 2006


On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:49:01 -0400
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> On Friday 18 August 2006 11:53 am, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Just a heads up..
> > I plan to push the below patchset (split-up, of course) into my
> 
> Yes please.  (Reviewing 4000 lines at once ain't fun.)
> 
> > 'busybox_scratch' branch soonish, then merge that branch back into
> > trunk.
> > Unfortunately i have not yet setup a local git repo mainly because i
> > didn't sit down and see what steps are needed to set that nifty tool up,
> > i admit, so pushing that patch into the official svn will be a little
> > bit of a pain for me..
> 
> I went with Mercurial because I find it simpler to set up and admin, it's 
> faster, it's one project instead of 3 or 4, it's about 1/10th as much code 
> (being written in Python will do that), and the on-disk file layout doesn't 
> make by brain hurt.  But I have nothing against git. :)
> 
> I've pinged Junio and Matt about a bidirectional git-mercural converter that 
> would allow each to pull from the other.  (They both say it's possible in 
> theory...)  Apparently I wasn't the first to ask about this...

AFAIK the linuxtv.org guys are using mercurial and they have an automatic
conversion to git so that Linus can pull directly.
I don't know if they use tailor [1] or anything else.

Aurel

[1] http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor



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