Comments on: The mirror man says

By: menko

menko — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:00:04 +0000

Go and ask for help in #mercurial (freenode).

I guess they’ll be very happy to help out!

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:47:14 +0000

blah:
there really is no point keeping the git-svn metadata around – we didn’t keep any kind of meta data around for the mapping cvs commits to svn commits, and it didn’t hurt, so why do it now? and yes, it is messy. I don’t want or need to see that information as a developer.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:25:57 +0000

@Jason:
They are very important, IMO anway, stop gaps as they are often introductions to the DVCSs. Almost all projects I work on are CVS or SVN primarily so my exposure to DVCSs in real working cases are via {git,bzr}-svn, etc.

Because we’re often evaluating and learning DVCSs via interaction with SVN repos these days the UI does matter quite a bit. For instance, generally use git-svn rebase is encouraged, but git rebase is not. With bzr-svn you’re basically using the same commands you would with a normal bzr branch.

@John Carr
I’d love to see a Mercurial mirror (even though I know it’s a lot of work) as I’m leaning towards that way as a preferred DVCS. However, I haven’t yet figured out the best way of mirroring SVN with Mercurial. It’s my only real gripe with hg that interaction with SVN and CVS is not very mature. Right now I’m using hgsvn which provide hgimportsvn and hgpullsvn commands.

By: ovitters

ovitters — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:35:18 +0000

Jason: Bzr-svn works almost the same as Bzr, just git-svn that has a very different workmethod (from what I hear about it).
Even then, the purpose is to have people try out a DVCS.

By: Jason D. Clinton

Jason D. Clinton — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:20:18 +0000

In what way does the UI of bzr-svn and git-svn matter? They’re both stop-gaps.

By: blah

blah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:43:03 +0000

Why do you call the git-svn rev id “pollution”? It’s part of the history. It makes sense to keep. It certainly doesn’t hurt to have it.

I am also not sure why the bzr meta data matters in any way. Also, the only difference I could notice is the names that are resolved?