Re: Replace Mercurial with GIT as SCM

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On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Hans Verkuil wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 December 2009 04:55:00 Andy Walls wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:59 +0100, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I would like to start a discussion which ideally results in either
> > > changing the SCM of v4l-dvb to git _or_ leaving everything as it is today
> > > with mercurial.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm waiting for comments.
> >
> > I only have one requirement: reduce bandwidth usage between the server
> > and my home.
> >
> > The less I have to clone out 65 M of history to start a new series of
> > patches the better.  I suppose that would include a rebase...
> 
> Unfortunately, one reason for moving to git would be to finally be able to 
> make changes to the arch directory tree. The fact that that part is 
> unavailable in v4l-dvb is a big problem when working with SoCs. And these will 
> become much more important in the near future.

FWIW, tomorrow (or a day or two later) I'll have to spend time again 
back-porting arch changes from git to hg, to be able to push my current 
patches...

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
http://www.open-technology.de/
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