Re: [PATCH v4 00/13] New remote-hg helper

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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>>Junio wanted a more general solution, adding infrastructure to the
>>rev-list engine that I did not need -- and did not see the need for,
>>either -- and given the amount of time I had invested in a working
>>remote-hg and given that I needed it desperately for my day-job
>>project, ...
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> This is relatively long ago (and I am away from my machine, so I cannot check) so I may misremembering things, but my impression is that since that discussion, we added a minimal "infrastructure" to the rev-list (I think we caled it rev-list-cmdline or something like that) and Sverre used it to update fast-export.
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> It may well be that what we have is still not sufficient to do everything you need, but it may be close enough to get extended for your original use case.