From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:44:45 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220907151644o6d0f9a3cg5f4ba2a77c518ba1@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] git on plan9 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 22d62504-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:38 PM, wrote: >> Thats good to hear HG is working well, I am really hoping for git >> as it is hosting my current repo of works. =C2=A0If git does not exist >> and there is no plan to do it in the future I can migrate over my >> stuff (i'd prefer to do actual new work than porting VCS!). >>=C2=A0Thanks for the replies thus far. > > If the hg is new enough that it comes with the bookmarks > extension, then you can install a separate extension > that will make it handle git too. =C2=A0I have been using hg to > manipulate git repositories and find it far more pleasant > than using git directly. > > =C2=A0http://hg-git.github.com/ > =C2=A0http://bitbucket.org/abderrahim/hg-git/ > > The code at the second URL, which is a newer fork > of the first URL's code, makes it almost transparent: > > =C2=A0hg clone git://asdfkjasdfadsf > =C2=A0hg commit > =C2=A0hg push > =C2=A0hg pull -u > > They all just work. > > Russ > It appears that the Plan 9 port of hg is version 1.0.2, which does not have bookmarks. To those who ported it, how difficult was the task? How much work would it be to bring in 1.2? To Russ, it's not quite clear... does the git extension *require* bookmarks, or just work better with them? Right now I'm trying to clone hg-git to test it, but the clone is failing w= ith: %hg clone http://bitbucket.org/abderrahim/hg-git/ destination directory: hg-git requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes transaction abort! rollback completed abort: Invalid argument: /usr/john/lib/hg-git/.hg/store/data John --=20 "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba