-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 3, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Barry Warsaw writes: > >> Your point about interoperability is an important one, and definitely >> a factor in the decision. I think the risk is mitigated by tools >> like Tailor, > > Tailor is great, but "mitigated" is as far as you can go. The basic > stuff like branches and committer id is properly moved from one to the > other. However, you can lose some metadata going from one dvcs to > another if the target doesn't support it. For example, git supports > both author and committer IDs for each commit, which others don't, and > git has its signed tags. So my take away from this is that while a conversion would be / possible/ it's not completely seamless or automatic. If we choose wrong, we'll suffer some pain, but we'll recover. ;) Would you say that's accurate? I could live with that. - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRjs0x3EjvBPtnXfVAQJ/kAP/SuvnK3sZyiAJSt+xilwWJxF9wOo04Dbw uzk/e8yEOWg8UoAxSZAUny5c+sIb7QI0PI+AWI7gJuUrhu2HM24nAUT1zztmSHk1 pSpAitzHK15uknyntbtS3opYkZPJe/q8qiraITC4PEfvjOF67KbiImWlz+IgU0Kv P5m0f8q5UmQ= =p9+f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
