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[Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

hg convert would be better for creating a mirror. It just seems to me
that if you really want people to provide patches, they should be
working against the canonical central repo and not some mirror in
another VCS.

>
>> >> 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
>