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Hi, Thomas In my opinion, if the conversion tool is a perfect one, there should be nothing meanful about this argument. If a gitweb is created for the project, I will feel comfortable.... I have nearly no knowledge on HG, so I have not many word on this VCS. All of my knowledge of HG is: [brock_zheng@~ 15:37:12]$ pacman -Si mercurial Repository : extra Name : mercurial Version : 2.7-1 Description : A scalable distributed SCM tool Architecture : x86_64 URL : http://mercurial.selenic.com/ Licenses : GPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : python2 Optional Deps : tk: for the hgk GUI Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Download Size : 2099.74 KiB Installed Size : 13083.00 KiB Packager : Giovanni Scafora <giovanni@archlinux.org> Build Date : Sat Aug 3 01:21:04 2013 Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA256 Sum Signature On 2013-08-09 09:21:13, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 09:21:13 +0200 > From: Thomas De Schampheleire <patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> > To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> > Cc: goodmenlinux@gmail.com, crossgcc maillist <crossgcc@sourceware.org> > Subject: Re: [Maybe a boring Question] Why not GIT? > > Hi Yann, > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> wrote: > > Brock, All, > > > > On 2013-08-08 09:47 +0800, goodmenlinux@gmail.com spake thusly: > >> I found that github has ct-ng dir, but the latest update is 3 years ago. > >> Does this great project has any plan to use GIT? > >> Any comment on it? > > > > Oh... That's been a long time since that one came last... > > > > OK, a bit of history: > > - first I slightly hacked on the original crosstool (then maintained > > by Dan Kegel), and there was no repository, only occasional tarball > > releases > > - then I hacked a bit more, and that eventually became crosstool-NG > > - this was done in subversion, since I was really comfortable with it > > - I eventually reached the limits of svn especially when I witnessed > > an unrecoverable repository crash twice in a row, with no apparent > > reason > > - I looked at the other existing possibilities (circa 2009-07): > > - cvs? Muahaha! > > - bazaar: you must be kidding me! ;-) > > - git: widespread, powerfull, yet very complex to get up to speed; > > one needs his flight license and 200h in active duty before beinf > > able to at least land a merge sanely. > > - Hg: repository set up and live in two hours, with no prior > > knowledge of a DVCS. > > - choice made: Hg that was to be. > > > > Now, time has passed, I am now confident in my git abilities (although I > > am far from being an expert). When I get some time, I'll migrate to git, > > but there is n oschedule for this. > > You must me kidding me! > > In fact, I was very happy to see that crosstool-ng was using hg > instead of git. The learning curve, documentation, and simplicity are > all positive points of hg, and (although I admit I haven't spend > enough time _trying_ to understand git) these are points in which git > seems to be lacking. > When I'm contributing to open-source projects using git, I use the > hg-git extension to convert it to hg and I send patches from there. > Surely the git people can do the same for this one hg project? > > Anyway, feel free to migrate to git as you please, but do understand > that I will be forced to give you an angry look next time I see you! > ;-) > > Best regards, > Thomas -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq
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