Hi there,

> On 15 Jan 2016, at 10:25, Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
>> Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial
>> repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote
>> repositories, using git.
> 
> Great news! I was really sad when Sverre's work on remote-hg was basically
> ignored and replaced (and he went away after that),

I have a bit of a different recollection of that story; in particular, his tool 
was quite limited, and quickly broke down when used. 

> and then the replacement was not maintained properly.

If you are talking about felipe's git-remote-hg: I am maintaining a fork of 
that, and it works quite well for me (I use it daily, and so do many other 
people):

<https://github.com/fingolfin/git-remote-hg>

That said, I certainly am not putting much energy into it, so I am very happy 
to see that Mike is active on his new tool :-).

Cheers,
Max

> 
> So I am personally very happy that there is a well-maintained alternative
> now.
> 
> Hopefully I will get a chance to test this soon, but I already have one
> comment: at
>> 1. https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/wiki/Windows-Support
> 
> ... it is mentioned that...
> 
>       Git for Windows 32-bits is untested, but assumed to have the same
>       issue as MSys2 32-bits
> 
> ... but as is mentioned here:
> 
>       https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/32-bit-issues
> 
> Git for Windows executes the rebaseall step as part of the installation,
> so it should not have the same issue as MSys2 32-bits ;-)
> 
> Ciao,
> Dscho
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