Re: Announcing a new (prototype) git-remote-hg tool

> Hi,
>
> I've (re)started work on a longstanding idea of mine of having a git 
> tool
> talking the mercurial wire protocol directly. I'm now at a stage where
> the tool can clone and pull/fetch from mercurial.
>
> As it is a prototype, there are many things that it doesn't handle 
> (like
> named branches, bookmarks, phases, obsolescence markers), but it
> currently transposes a complete mercurial dag to git and maintains
> metadata about the original mercurial data.
>
> Code on https://github.com/glandium/git-remote-hg
>
> It doesn't support push, but support for that should come in the 
> coming
> weeks.
>
> More background on http://glandium.org/blog/?p=3382
>
> This is meant to be a prototype, and will stay that way for now.
> It's a validation that this can actually work. Now that I have pull
> support I know I can make it push.
> I'm currently evaluating what the final tool would look like. I'm 
> *very*
> tempted to implement it in C, based on core git code, because there 
> are
> many things that this helper does that would be so much easier to do
> with direct access to git's guts. And that wouldn't require more
> dependencies than git currently has: it would "just" need curl and 
> ssh,
> and git already uses both.
>
> If I were to go in that direction, would you consider integrating it
> in git core? If not, would you rather see git helpers to make this
> git-remote-hg helper more efficient?
>