On 09/18/2017 01:16 PM, Bobby Holley wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 8:25 AM, Andrew McCreight <amccrei...@mozilla.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Kartikaya Gupta <kgu...@mozilla.com>
wrote:
I've tried using cinnabar a couple of times now and the last time I
tried, this was the dealbreaker for me. My worfklow often involves
moving a branch from one machine to another and the extra hassle that
results from mismatched SHAs makes it much more complicated than it
needs to be. gecko-dev doesn't have this problem as it has a canonical
upstream that works much more like a regular git user expects.
For what it is worth, I regularly pull from one machine to another with
git-cinnabar, and it works just fine without any problems from mismatched
SHAs. For me, the switch from a clone of gecko-dev to git-cinnabar has been
totally transparent.
+1. The non-stable SHA problem was solved a long time ago. Same goes for
any big performance issues. In my experience, cinnabar is pretty darn
transparent.
https://github.com/mozilla/gecko is effectively the canonical repo people
are talking about. I sometimes pull that, but git-cinnabar is fast enough
that it works fine to just clone the hg repo directly. If it weren't for
the occasional annoyance of mapping commits between local revs and hg.m.o
links, I would basically forget that the core infrastructure is running hg.
That repo doesn't have the CVS history. :-( I realize that is fixable
with a local graft and a clone of gecko-dev, but a lot of blood and
sweat went into making our current canonical git repo include the full
CVS history (I maintained it myself for ~3 years and a lot of people
spent quite a bit of time and energy to stand up the current
infrastructure that maintains gecko-dev.) Would it be possible to base
the canonical git-cinnabar repo on
https://github.com/jrmuizel/gecko-cinnhabar which does have the full CVS
history?
_______________________________________________
dev-platform mailing list
dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
