Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] remote-helpers: move out of contrib

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 23, 2014, 21:00 UTC
Message-ID: <535829dd861b1_24448772ece1@nysa.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa9bbzwc0.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Max Horn <max@quendi.de> writes:
> 
> > Perhaps it is OK to move an undocumented remote-helper
> > with known bugs out of contrib.
> 
> We should strive to apply the same criteria as new submission to the
> main part of the system.  And inputs from people like you who have
> more experiences than others on the list in dealing with hg-to-git
> bridging are very much welcomed to identify and document what kind
> of breakages there are, and to come up with the solution to them.

FTR. There are no "known brakages", at least to me. Max Horn tends to hoard these issues and never report them (unless an opportunity to criticize git-remote-hg comes, apparently).

The very unlikely issue that nobody has reported about hg multiple heads and gc I just fixed, and the issue he just reported about 'foo' and 'foo/bar' is newly reported, and there's no easy way to fix this. My proposal would be to have some sort of branch mapping mechanism in fast-import, but hardly something that should prevent the move out of contrib.

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Felipe Contreras