Re: MinGW binary installer available

From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 17:35 UTC
Message-ID: <45CA0DCA.3080908@xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071808320.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Johannes Schindelin escreveu:

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> Thank you very much!
> 
> Just out of curiosity: What do you use to convert it? Tailor all branches, 
> then stitch them together? (With tailor, stitching is possible as long as 
> you did not merge branches: the commit objects _will_ be identical, since 
> even the commit timestamps are derived from the source repository.)

A simple linear import of all the patches. Since Darcs uses patch based storage, I think it's not possible to accurately map a Darcs repository onto a Git one without creating branch spaghetti.

I have never grokked how tailor is supposed to work, so I use a home made script.

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