interest in hg?

[Paul Querna <pa...@querna.org>]

hi,

so, the git-universe seems to have lots of mindshare so far at the asf.

personally, I'm more a fan of Mercurial[1].

recently python[2] switched to hg, and google code has started
offering hg support[3]

of course debating the merits between the different (d)SCMs seems to
be a bike shed, but I would like to look into setting up hg slaves of
a couple projects.....

For doing the imports, there are several choices for hg:
<http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WorkingWithSubversion>

hgsubversion seems the most advanced from a technical standpoint, as
it uses the svn replay commands to fetch changesets, and should be
very efficient once the initial mirror is made.

I'm not sure how well it works with sub-path mirror though, and it
seems to make lots of assumptions about paths (though i guess git-svn
does the same)

anyone else interested :) ?

[1] - http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Mercurial
[2] - http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/087931.html
[3] - http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html

Re: interest in hg?

[Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Paul Querna <pa...@querna.org> wrote:
> anyone else interested :) ?

I'd be interested in trying hg out for flood/apr/httpd.  -- justin

Re: interest in hg?

[Paul Querna <pa...@querna.org>]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Paul Querna <pa...@querna.org> wrote:
>> of course debating the merits between the different (d)SCMs seems to
>> be a bike shed, but I would like to look into setting up hg slaves of
>> a couple projects.....
>
> Cool!
>
>> For doing the imports, there are several choices for hg:
>> <http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WorkingWithSubversion>
>
> You might also want to take a look a the git conversion that
> Mercurial's convert extension supports. That should be a bit easier as
> hg is much closer to git than to svn, and you could leverage the git
> mirrors we've already set up.

I thought about that, but it seems the chances of losing data on a two
stage conversion is greatly increased.

(Having said that, I have done a Visual Source Safe -> CVS ->
Subversion conversion before the tools existed to do direct VSS -> SVN
:) )

Re: interest in hg?

[Jukka Zitting <ju...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Paul Querna <pa...@querna.org> wrote:
> of course debating the merits between the different (d)SCMs seems to
> be a bike shed, but I would like to look into setting up hg slaves of
> a couple projects.....

Cool!

> For doing the imports, there are several choices for hg:
> <http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WorkingWithSubversion>

You might also want to take a look a the git conversion that
Mercurial's convert extension supports. That should be a bit easier as
hg is much closer to git than to svn, and you could leverage the git
mirrors we've already set up.

BR,

Jukka Zitting