On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jord...@octave.org > wrote:
> On 11 November 2012 04:24, Nicolas M. Thiery <nicolas.thi...@u-psud.fr> > wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:30:21AM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > >> Sigh, I guess we took too long to stabilise the obsolete markers and > >> the evolve extension in Mercurial. > >> > >> I hope I'm wrong and you guys and your users find git easier to use > >> than hg. I certainly didn't. > > > > I am not looking forward this change either: `evolve` looked far more > > promising. > > Evolve already works, sort of. Last hg stable release 2.4 makes it almost > ready. > > > But I'll have to follow (in fact precede) the flow if > > that's the general consensus ... > > A possibility is to simply start with a git mirror of the current hg > repo. Hg-git allows you to push and pull from hg to git. Yes, this tool is useful for making the jump. We are using it to preserve our history during the transition. Be aware, however, that it is slow, and doesn't create very efficient repositories. > You also wouldn'nt want to get rid of the hg repo. Losing the hg repo also > possibly means that all of your patches in the bug reports referencing > hg commits would now be dangling references. > We've been using Git style patches for a while already, which means that they should remain compatible even with a Git repository (using `git am`, etc). > - Jordi G. H. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-git" group. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-git+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en.
