[darcs-users] A few comments about Git [was: Programmatic invocation]
David Roundy
droundy at darcs.net
Fri Nov 18 12:27:36 UTC 2005
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 08:41:52PM +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> In the light of the above, you might wonder why I'm working on
> Darcs-Git. There are two reasons.
>
> One is that I'm interested in restructuring Darcs in a more modular
> fashion, and the Git backend is a good excuse to do so. The second is
> that Git's is a nice simple format for keeping revision control
> information, and I'd like to see it become the standard interchange
> format for transferring data between revision control systems,
> hopefully making hacks such as Tailor obsolete. (Lest anyone be
> offended: Tailor is a marvellous hack. But I'd still like to replace
> it by what I believe is The Right Way to data interchange.)
I second that notion. This second reason is also why I'm interested in
Darcs-Git. The first one, to me, is relatively minor, although I'll admit
that it has had very nice effects in cleaning up the darcs codebase.
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David Roundy
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