On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:05 AM, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:>
> I don't think that's true, for the reasons I indicated above. Rather,
> > there's a policy decision about whether we are going to have Git as a
> > first-class thing or whether we are going to continue force everyone who
> > uses Git to fight with inadequate workflows. We know there are plenty of
> > people who use Git.
>
> Besides occasionally having to convert between hg and cinnabar
> changeset ids, what's inadequate about cinnabar workflow(s)?
>

That's a big part of it. I've also had it fail randomly and for unobvious
reasons (especially if you have some kind of unconventional hg install) and
then had to figure out why. And of course it means you need to install and
maintain hg and cinnabar, not just git. It's just another piece of wacky
custom machinery that we make devs suffer through.

-Ekr


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