On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Uriel <urie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mercurial and git solve all replica problems, and some more. > > They are infinitely faster, more reliable, and more useful. And in > some ways they are even conceptually simpler (I never quite understood > some of the most subtle points of replica, like why it keeps saying it > needs to update files that were already updated if I happen to have > some local changes elsewhere, even when I have had them explained to > me repeatedly, of course that is due to my own intellectual > limitations, but...) > > The git codebase is considerably more complex, but that is because it > does tons of things we don't really need to replace replica, I even > got a port of git almost going. If it is agreed to replace replica > with git, I will be happy to work on porting the latest git version. > (It already works under linuxemu). > > Mercurial is much simpler (at some point it was about seven thousand > lines of python, it has grown since, but the useful stuff was all > already there), and it think some people got it to work with their > various python ports (not sure which, there are so many that I lost > track), and mjl has a very nice read only limbo implementation, and > said making it write wouldn't be too hard (the tricky stuff is merges > and such, which we don't really need to replace replica). > > So, all that is needed to get rid of replica is the determination to > do so, and I'm sure many people will be happy to help in the effort. > > Peace > > uriel > > P.S.: Other problems this would solve is fast and efficient mirroring, > web interfaces to the source and history, etc. > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: >>> But people keep telling me that replica's unreliability, painful >>> slowness, and general clunkyness, are all in my imagination, so what >>> do I know... >> >> No, what we've told you, repeatedly, is that >> whining about problems and fixing them are >> two different things. Fixes are appreciated. >> >> Russ >> >> > >
contrib/bichued has a working mercurial port. iru
