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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 17, 2012, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1210171936170.3049@bonsai2>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s1WY+Q7jyy4PQvwff7JSxHsnkhrPWozOLnNuNOrn7FGBA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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> 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?

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> 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.

As for who uses it:

	https://github.com/dscho/hg

> It would be better to work together, but to me the code-styles are way
> too different, the difference between night and day.

Aha. Well, okay, it was an offer to collaborate.

Ciao, Johannes