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
