From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?)
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:06:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljw3zx8i.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081028213144.GC10862@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:31:44 -0400")
* Theodore Tso:
> In the past I've looked at the possibility of creating a
> bi-directional, incremental gateway between hg and git repositories.
> The main thing which makes this difficult is that hg stores tags
> in-band inside the change-controlled .hgtags file. This means that if
> you cut a release, tag it, and then create a commit to further modify
> the repository, the new commit is descended from the tag commit,
> whereas in git, the tag is a "bookmark" --- perhaps signed via GPG,
> but not part of the revision history.
Couldn't you just keep the .hgtags file and have everyone interested
in the tags use special scripts?
(Admittedly, I'm horribly totally by Git's behavior in this area. I
haven't figured out yet under what circumstances tags are pushed and
pulled, so I'm not totally opposed to the Mercurial model. 8-/)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-01 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-26 4:28 [VOTE] git versus mercurial walt
2008-10-26 14:15 ` [VOTE] git versus mercurial (for DragonflyBSD) Jakub Narebski
2008-10-26 14:30 ` Maxim Vuets
2008-10-26 15:05 ` Leo Razoumov
2008-10-26 18:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-27 0:20 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-27 4:15 ` Leo Razoumov
2008-10-27 7:16 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-27 7:16 ` dhruva
2008-10-27 0:47 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-27 1:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-27 7:50 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-27 9:41 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-27 10:12 ` Leslie P. Polzer
2008-10-27 10:14 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-27 12:48 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <200810271512.26352.arne_bab@web.de>
2008-10-27 18:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-27 20:48 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-27 21:07 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-27 21:30 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-28 0:13 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-28 17:48 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-28 19:11 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2008-10-28 19:38 ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-11-06 16:25 ` Marcin Kasperski
2008-11-06 17:41 ` Isaac Jurado
2008-10-28 19:16 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-10-27 23:25 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-27 9:29 ` Benoit Boissinot
2008-10-27 10:57 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-27 14:29 ` 0000 vk
2008-10-27 14:57 ` Jakub Narebski
[not found] ` <1225100597.31813.11.camel@abelardo.lan>
2008-10-27 11:42 ` David Soria Parra
2008-10-27 20:07 ` Brandon Casey
2008-10-27 20:37 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-28 1:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-26 15:57 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-10-26 19:07 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-26 19:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2008-10-28 12:31 ` [VOTE] git versus mercurial walt
2008-10-28 14:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-28 14:41 ` Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?) (was: Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial) Peter Krefting
2008-10-28 14:59 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-28 15:02 ` Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?) Matthieu Moy
2008-10-28 15:03 ` Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?) (was: Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial) Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-28 15:33 ` Pieter de Bie
2008-10-28 19:12 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-28 21:10 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-10-28 21:31 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-28 23:28 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-11-01 8:06 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2008-11-01 10:03 ` Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?) Santi Béjar
2008-11-01 10:33 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-01 10:44 ` Florian Weimer
2008-11-01 11:10 ` Florian Weimer
2008-11-01 12:26 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-01 13:39 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-01 17:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-02 1:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-01 10:16 ` Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?) (was: Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial) Peter Krefting
2008-10-29 19:11 ` [VOTE] git versus mercurial Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-29 19:36 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2008-10-29 19:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-29 19:51 ` Boyd Lynn Gerber
2008-10-29 8:15 ` Miles Bader
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