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[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:54 -0500, Augie Fackler wrote:
> 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.
Isn't that just one way of creating the mirror? There'd have to be a
cronjob or something to do the pull though, and somebody needs to make
sure the versions of dulwich/hg/hg-git in use there stay working.

> >> 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).
Ah, cool. 

Cheers,

Jelmer

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