Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes: > I still don't see any good reason why a user might prefer gitifyhg, > even more importantly, why gitifyhg developers don't contribute to > remote-hg.
Felipe, I read your blog announcement [1] and got the impression that remote-hg was ready for daily use. When I tried to use it, it promptly crashed in my first attempt to clone. I opened up the script, fixed whatever caused the first stack trace and made it slighly further before it crashed again. I couldn't tell what was expected to work, what was a known problem, and what was an unknown problem. Many things clearly did not work and it had the look of a project that was not getting active use. I felt that it was wildly oversold and that putting it into git.git was premature. I tried gitifyhg later and it basically worked out of the box. All known problems were marked by 'xfail' test cases. At that time, remote-hg failed almost all the gitifyhg tests. I contributed a few things to gitifyhg, including the notes support (essential when talking via email with other people using Mercurial). Since then, the last major project I'm involved with has switched to Git so I rarely need gitifyhg or remote-hg any more. FWIW, I also thought Dusty's original announcement oversold gitifyhg, but it was closer to the truth and upon cloning the repo, it was more clear what didn't work. The early history of gitifyhg is quite chaotic and I didn't realize at first how much code turned out to be borrowed from remote-hg. I don't know whether you wrote all of remote-hg or borrowed significant parts from elsewhere. To be honest, I don't really care, but it would be good to coalesce around one project that is well-tested and has documented behavior so that the poor folks stuck with Mercurial upstreams can have dependable behavior. [1] http://felipec.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/git-remote-hg-bzr-2/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
