From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:28:06 GMT Subject: Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, walt wrote: > walt wrote: > > No, no, I'm not the one calling for a vote. You old-timers here will > > know the name Matt Dillon, who is leading the dragonflybsd project > > (www.dragonflybsd.org). > > > > Matt is the one who is calling for the vote in his thread "Vote for > > your source control system" in the dragonfly.kernel group, accessible > > via nntp://nntp.dragonflybsd.org... > > The official vote was 19 to 19, plus one for perforce and one for svn. > Matt has proposed a primary git repository and a mirror in hg, and > that's being debated now. While many may say that that is a half-baked solution, I actually like it. Mercurial and Git are pretty similar in their concept (if not in how the data is actually stored). Note that with git fast-export and hg fast-import, it should be relatively simple to convert from one data format to the other, even incrementally. And for the other direction, you could use hg fast-export from the fast-export.git repository (I am working on a better one at the moment, too, so that incremental fast-export would be possible, too). Ciao, Dscho