Re: [PATCH] Add new git-remote-hd helper

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Johannes Schindelin
>> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>> >
>> >> I've looked at many hg<->git tools and none satisfy me. Too
>> >> complicated, or too slow, or to difficult to setup, etc.
>> >
>> > The one I merged into Git for Windows (since that is what I install on
>> > all my machines even if they run Linux) is rock-solid. It also comes
>> > with tests. And it requires a fix I tried to get into git.git (but
>> > failed, since I was asked to do much more in addition to what I needed
>> > for myself, and I lack the time to address such requests these days).
>>
>> Maybe, but who uses it? It's quite a lot of code, and it's quite
>> difficult to setup--you would need a non-vanilla version of git.
>
> Okay, so the difficulty of setting it up is because it is not in mainline
> git.git?

>> Compare this:
>> 32 files changed, 3351 insertions(+), 289 deletions(-)
>>
>> To this:
>> 1 file changed, 231 insertions(+)
>
> Yeah, and that's also because of the severe lack of tests. And the lack of
> possible code-sharing with other remote helpers.