From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10728 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2010 15:09:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 10592 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Apr 2010 15:09:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_SV X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from sylphide-consulting.com (HELO freehackers.org) (82.225.154.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:09:33 +0000 Received: from berlioz.localnet (berlioz.ethernet.freehackers.org [IPv6:2002:52e1:9a02:2:224:1dff:fe8f:c292]) by mail.freehackers.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7B2B69F48D; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 17:09:29 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Capricelli To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: State of the mercurial mirror Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:09:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Thomas Capricelli References: <201004010018.21146.orzel@freehackers.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201004011709.28751.orzel@freehackers.org> Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 In data gioved=EC 01 aprile 2010 16:29:12, Rainer Orth ha scritto: > works just fine. From my experience, hg is vastly superior to git, > which is simply a usability nightmare, as Dan Berlin discovered when he > worked on setting up the hg mirror. I completely agree, but my point was not to start a war git vs mercurial :-) > > Also, i would volunteer to fix this, and even to maintain the mirror. I= s this the right place to ask ? I don't even know if that's something that = would be well accepted. Any interest for this ? >=20 > It would certainly be good to keep this working and promote it, > especially if this could be a complete conversion of the svn repo, not > trunk only. I could try to do this. I've converted several repositories, and created mi= rrors for several projects too. Most of them private/closed source (i'm wor= king as a consultant). I did the migration svn->mercurial for the project e= igen, and it was not possible (or very very hard) to do the same for git at= this time, because eigen was part of the very big KDE svn repository. ref: http://www.freehackers.org/thomas/2009/05/18/feedback-about-converting-eige= n2-to-mercurial/ (btw, eigen is also the source of several template-related bug reports for = g++, :-) Thomas --=20 Thomas Capricelli http://www.freehackers.org/thomas