Hi Jed, all,
On 28.01.2013, at 06:19, Jed Brown wrote:
I'm working on an hg remote helper that uses git notes for the sha1
revision, so that git users can more easily refer to specific commits
when communicating with hg users.
For the record, I am also working on that very same thing; it is yet another
git-remote-hg alternative, based on Felipe's code but with many improvements.
You can find it here: https://github.com/buchuki/gitifyhg.
Anyway, back to Jed's (and also my) question:
Since there may be multiple
concurrent fast-import streams, I write the notes to a private ref
(refs/notes/hg-REMOTE), to be merged eventually using
git notes --ref hg merge hg-REMOTE*
There will never be conflicts because each hg commit translates to a
unique git commit, thus even if multiple concurrent remotes process the
same commit, the corresponding note will match.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a safe way to get this run after a fetch
or clone. Of course I can ask the user to arrange to have this command
run, but it would be a better interface to have it run automatically
since it is a natural responsibility of the remote helper. Am I missing
a way to do this or a viable alternative approach?
One idea we (well, Jed :-) had when brain storming about this was that perhaps
one could (or even should?) (ab)use the checkpoint feature for that.
Basically, when the remote-helper is almost done with everything, issue a
checkpoint command, to flush out everything we just imported to the HD.
Then once this completed, we can perform the notes merge. The main remaining
problem with that is: How would we know when the checkpoint actually
completed? Any ideas?
Perhaps a way to do that would be to make use of the new bidi-import remote
helper capability -- if I understand it right, then this effectively connects
the fast-import stdout to the stdin of the remote helper. Thus, if one were to
follow the checkpoint by a progress command, then by waiting for that
progress command's output to appear back on stdin, the remote helper could
determine whether the import succeeded, and perform finalization actions (like
merging notes, as in our case).
Does that sound viable? Crazy? Anybody got better a idea?
Cheers,
Max--
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