From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:34:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] remote-hg: general updates
Message-ID: <7vip42i1r0.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <871uaqrwrp.fsf@59A2.org>

Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> writes:

> ...  I felt that it was wildly oversold and that putting it into
> git.git was premature.
>
> I tried gitifyhg later and it basically worked out of the box.  All
> known problems were marked by 'xfail' test cases.  At that time,
> remote-hg failed almost all the gitifyhg tests.  I contributed a few
> things to gitifyhg, including the notes support (essential when talking
> via email with other people using Mercurial).  Since then, the last
> major project I'm involved with has switched to Git so I rarely need
> gitifyhg or remote-hg any more.
>
> FWIW, I also thought Dusty's original announcement oversold gitifyhg, but
> it was closer to the truth and upon cloning the repo, it was more clear
> what didn't work.

So,... is there a concrete proposal for _me_ to act on?  Do you want
to see contrib/remtote-hg out of my tree, and have it compete with
the other one (which also shouldn't be in my tree) in the open?