[cmake-developers] git move

[Bill Hoffman]

Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2010/3/8 Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva <miguelf at ieee.org>:
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
>>> Sound interesting.
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just committed a change using hg-git:
>>
>> http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commit;h=8f9f6b3ac1850e5b630871fd080360ad6874fb39
>>
>> First, I would like to make sure that everything looks good and
>> nothing was messed up. For example, the committ time in the main page
>> (http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git) seems off, but I'm not sure if
>> this is a git thing.
>>
>> Notice that the workflow was:
>>
>> 1. hg clone git://cmake.org/cmake.git CMake
>> 2. ... my regular mercurial Mq development ...
>> 3. hg pull # to get latest changes
>> 4. hg rebase -s rev1 -d rev2 # to have changes at the tip
>> 5. hg push -r tip git+ssh://git@cmake.org:cmake.git
>>
>> If there is interest, I can write a small entry in the wiki on how to
>> install/configure hg-git, and how to use this workflow. If so, where
>> should I put this information?
> 
> I'm currently using git but would be interested in the hg-git workfow
> for two reason:
> 
>  1) it would certainly ease contribution access for those already using hg
>  2) for other project I was planning cvs  to either git or hg and being able
>      to move to git and use hg would be very interesting for same reason
>      as 1).
> 
> I think a specific entry (or page) on the CMake GIT wiki would be good.
Yes, that would be useful.  The git windows clients are not the best, 
and I hear that hg might have better windows support.

-Bill