Re: Announcing git-cinnabar 0.3.0

From: Max Horn <max@quendi.de>
Date: Feb 14, 2016, 21:57 UTC
Message-ID: <1484E384-530B-41A3-80B6-9F2F20059E86@quendi.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601151022050.2964@virtualbox>

Hi there,

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> On 15 Jan 2016, at 10:25, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
>> Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial
>> repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote
>> repositories, using git.
> 
> Great news! I was really sad when Sverre's work on remote-hg was basically
> ignored and replaced (and he went away after that),

I have a bit of a different recollection of that story; in particular, his tool was quite limited, and quickly broke down when used.

> and then the replacement was not maintained properly.

If you are talking about felipe's git-remote-hg: I am maintaining a fork of that, and it works quite well for me (I use it daily, and so do many other people):

<https://github.com/fingolfin/git-remote-hg>

That said, I certainly am not putting much energy into it, so I am very happy to see that Mike is active on his new tool :-).

Cheers, Max

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> 
> So I am personally very happy that there is a well-maintained alternative
> now.
> 
> Hopefully I will get a chance to test this soon, but I already have one
> comment: at
>> 1. https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/wiki/Windows-Support
> 
> ... it is mentioned that...
> 
> 	Git for Windows 32-bits is untested, but assumed to have the same
> 	issue as MSys2 32-bits
> 
> ... but as is mentioned here:
> 
> 	https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/32-bit-issues
> 
> Git for Windows executes the rebaseall step as part of the installation,
> so it should not have the same issue as MSys2 32-bits ;-)
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
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