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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:28 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 22:10 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
>> >> I wonder why bitbucket Hg mirror of Dulwich was brought down from the
>> >> list or repositories on http://samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/ ?
>> >> It would be convenient to submit patches there. I wonder if patches
>> >> applied to Bitbucket mirror could be brought back to Git?
>> > That repository was maintained by somebody else and it wasn't being kept
>> > up to date, so I removed it from the list in order to prevent confusion.
>> >
>> > Patches applied to the bitbucket mirror could certainly be brought back
>> > to Git, but I'd prefer it if somebody else would maintain that mirror
>> > and forward the patches upstream in a Git-compatible format (git
>> > repository that can be merged, git-am-style patches or just a set of
>> > unified diffs).
>> I'm perfectly willing to maintain a bitbucket mirror,
> Thanks :-)
>
>> <shameless plug> but why not just use hg-git? I do all my dulwich dev
>> work using hg-git and it's fantastic.
>> </shameless plug>
> Well, I already use bzr-git for my Dulwich work and am very happy with
> that. :-) I'd rather keep the amount of things that can go wrong when I
> publish Dulwich limited.

Right, I'm just questioning why we'd keep a mirror when there's a
perfectly good tool available that could pull right from the real
repo.

>
>> FWIW, modern hg can use 'hg email --plain' to email git-am format
>> patches. Some day, I'll take the time to teach git-am about hg's
>> slightly more robust patch format.
> I'm working on adding support for reading git-am patches to Dulwich,
> that might be of use in hg-git as well.

hg already natively imports git-format patches (with a caveat that we
have a bug I need to investigate about gpg-signed patches).

>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>