Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:30:13 +0530 | From | "Trilok Soni" <> | Subject | Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb |
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Hi,
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mauro, > >> >> This is one of the lack of the features on mercurial. It doesn't have a meta >> tag for committer. On mercurial, the -hg user and the author should be the same >> person. >> >> Since we want to identify the patch origin (e.g. whose v4l/dvb maintainer got >> the patch), we use the internal "user" meta-tag as the committer, and an extra >> tag, at the patch description for the author (From:). >> >> When creating the -git patch, the "From:" tag is replaced, by script, for >> "Author:", I add my SOB there, and, I add myself as the -git committer (on git >> we have both meta-tags). > > Isn't it good time to move v4l2-dvb tree to GIT? I am not aware of any > hg-to-git repo. converter, but I can check with hg and git community. > It could be difficult at first, but I am very confident that there are > many GIT users here than mercurial, and yes your v4l-dvb maintenance > process might change due move from GIT, but atleast you will not have > to internal user meta-data per patch.
OK, there are tools to convert mercurial to git repo.
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/InterfacesFrontendsAndTools#head-8870e1c81cc93f9a7a7acb5e969924ee60182d6b http://hedonismbot.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/hg-fast-export-convert-mercurial-repositories-to-git-repositories/
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