On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@samba.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:54 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@samba.org> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:28 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@samba.org> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 22:10 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote: >> >> >> I wonder why bitbucket Hg mirror of Dulwich was brought down from the >> >> >> list or repositories on http://samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/ ? >> >> >> It would be convenient to submit patches there. I wonder if patches >> >> >> applied to Bitbucket mirror could be brought back to Git? >> >> > That repository was maintained by somebody else and it wasn't being kept >> >> > up to date, so I removed it from the list in order to prevent confusion. >> >> > >> >> > Patches applied to the bitbucket mirror could certainly be brought back >> >> > to Git, but I'd prefer it if somebody else would maintain that mirror >> >> > and forward the patches upstream in a Git-compatible format (git >> >> > repository that can be merged, git-am-style patches or just a set of >> >> > unified diffs). >> >> I'm perfectly willing to maintain a bitbucket mirror, >> > Thanks :-) >> > >> >> <shameless plug> but why not just use hg-git? I do all my dulwich dev >> >> work using hg-git and it's fantastic. >> >> </shameless plug> >> > Well, I already use bzr-git for my Dulwich work and am very happy with >> > that. :-) I'd rather keep the amount of things that can go wrong when I >> > publish Dulwich limited. >> Right, I'm just questioning why we'd keep a mirror when there's a >> perfectly good tool available that could pull right from the real >> repo. > Isn't that just one way of creating the mirror? There'd have to be a > cronjob or something to do the pull though, and somebody needs to make > sure the versions of dulwich/hg/hg-git in use there stay working.
hg convert would be better for creating a mirror. It just seems to me that if you really want people to provide patches, they should be working against the canonical central repo and not some mirror in another VCS. > >> >> FWIW, modern hg can use 'hg email --plain' to email git-am format >> >> patches. Some day, I'll take the time to teach git-am about hg's >> >> slightly more robust patch format. >> > I'm working on adding support for reading git-am patches to Dulwich, >> > that might be of use in hg-git as well. >> hg already natively imports git-format patches (with a caveat that we >> have a bug I need to investigate about gpg-signed patches). > Ah, cool. > > Cheers, > > Jelmer > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dulwich-users Post to : dulwich-users@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dulwich-users More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
