[darcs-users] darcs & git
Gour
list at atmarama.org
Mon Nov 13 18:40:30 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 03:21 +0100, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> I do intend to fix Git support in Darcs. It's a rather big job,
> though -- the way we convert Git branches into Darcs branches is
> broken by design, and David has explained to me how to do it right at
> last FOSDEM.
Is it actually worth to do the job then?
It looks kernel won't anyway switch to darcs :-(
> No, and no.
>
> Darcs-git is designed to work with local repositories only. You're
> expected to use the native Git tools to perform remote access, i.e.
[...]
> with, of course, the ability to use Darcs to push from a local Git
> repo to a local or remote Darcs repo (i.e. reliable two-way sync).
>
That's also someting...
> Native git is far from being as friendly as Darcs, but it's quite
> usable as long as you don't need to do any merging (let alone
> cherry-picking).
After being familiar with darcs' orthogonality, all other rcs just
stink..
> Here's a quick starter, with equivalent Darcs
> commands as comments:
[...]
Thank you for tutorial ;)
> This should get you going -- until you find the need to merge, in
> which case you'll need to understand a little about Git (actually,
> a lot -- there are no less than 17 commands related to merging in
> Git).
Only? :-(
> Hope this helps, and sorry for not having the time to get Darcs-git
> into a usable shape.
Thanks a lot.
Maybe you should consider helping darcs to scale even better and drop
git support so that darcs can be viable alternative for kernel-size
repos?
Sincerely,
Gour
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