Re: [ANNOUNCE] Pyrite project.

From: Govind Salinas <blix@sophiasuchtig.com>
Date: Jan 26, 2008, 16:16 UTC
Message-ID: <5d46db230801260816r350140d0k3f0e3b664ea8b41e@mail.gmail.com>
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On 1/26/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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> "Govind Salinas" <blix@sophiasuchtig.com> writes:
>
> > I am starting a project that I hope some of you will be interested in.
> > I have been looking at DSCM tools for a few months now and I have
> > come away liking different aspects of different systems.  The project,
> > called Pyrite, aims to combine the best features of git and Mercurial.
> >
> > Please stop by http://pyrite.sophiasuchtig.com/ to see the
> > announcement.  Links to the public repo in there.
>
> From the description there it looks like Pyrite is (will be) something
> in between porcelain (SCM layer) like (now deprecated) Cogito, StGit,
> Guilt, and plumbings / reimplementation of Git, like jGit/eGit in Java
> and (planned?) Widgit in C#, rather than new SCM, isn't it?
>

Yes, I guess it's going a bit far to say that it's a new SCM since I will be re-using the git internals. Mostly I said that because I hope to re-implement large parts of it. It is more than a porcelain layer though. I prefer to think of it as a system based on both tools.

-Govind