[darcs-devel] GIT export

[Florian Weimer]

* Juliusz Chroboczek:

> I would like to ask that this should not be included in Darcs.

Sure, no problem, I can keep it on a private branch.

But if the GIT back end is resurrected, it might still be useful to
bootstrap the GIT side (provided that it is adapted to use the same
algorithm).

> The Git backend works very differently: instead of spawning a Git
> command, it directly manipulates Git's data structures.  It is
> a bidirectional gateway that preserves Git's and Darcs branching
> structure.

Is the approach it uses documented somewhere?  Does it rebase on the
GIT side to reflect the darcs patch ordering?

I had no luck at all with the GIT backend, and its remnants prevent
people from using tailor and its combined darcs/GIT repositories.
At least that should be addressed.

> May I encourage you to consider working on the Git backend instead,
> which does (or, more precisely, did) have these features?

I believe a reasonable precondition for a GIT backend would be the
conclusion of the GIT libification project, right?