Re: [Maybe a boring Question] Why not GIT?

[goodmenlinux at gmail dot com]

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


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