On 18 January 2011 08:19, Ben Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, guys,
>
> Is there still interest in moving MacVim to hg, now that Vim is using it,
> trying to preserve and combine Vim and MacVim history? I'd like to reinstate
> my offer to do some work on a conversion.
>
> Even if MacVim development wishes to continue using git, there could be
> advantages in doing the conversion, as the hg-git extension for Mercurial
> can allow lossless conversion between git and hg changesets--this means at
> least changesets from Bram could be pushed to a git repo and pulled into
> MacVim rather than messing around with patches and so on.
>
> The main hassle would be that people with current work in their git repos
> would need to clone afresh from the new repo and transfer their changes to
> that repo. Not insurmountable, but a nuisance.
>
> Please be sure to CC me on any reply. I'm still not yet managing to keep a
> very close eye on the mailing list and might miss a reply if it only goes
> there.

Hi Ben,

When I moved the MacVim repo from repo.or.cz to GitHub I set it up
using hg-git so there is no advantage to making a hg repo for MacVim
anymore.  I pull from the vim hg repo and then push using hg-git to my
git mirror [1].  I then pull the commits from [1] into the new MacVim
repo [2].

Björn

[1] https://github.com/b4winckler/vim
[2] https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim

-- 
You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist.
Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to.
For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php

Reply via email to