Re: [9fans] using git

[Ori Bernstein <ori@eigenstate.org>]

In the past, I have managed to get git-hg to work, but it's been extremely
flaky -- for example, Python would refuse to find modules unless I ran hg
from within the modules directory.

Unfortunately, I've lost the drive with that system since.

On Mar 19, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com> wrote:

> 
>> On Mar 19, 2015, at 11:09 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
>> 
>> I know some real git fanatics. I'm not one, but I am a "fan". :-)
>> 
>> I'll be happy to continue a discussion with you offline, if you wish.
> 
> 
> Don’t worry Arnold, I’ve been using source control systems for decades and have
> used git since the early days.  I’m glad it finally dropped the 'git-pull’ syntax
> for the cleaner (clearer|easier ?) to type ‘git pull’ implementation.  If git is
> the only DVCS tool you’ve used it wouldn’t hurt giving darcs or hg a cursory review
> to gain an understanding of alternative ways to slice the pie.
> 
> That said, James did have an early port of hg-git and I’ve gotten close to getting
> a new version working with the Python 2.7.x build.  Uriel left git 1.5.6 in his
> contrib built for 386.  Unfortunately, Uriel didn’t leave build or install instruction
> and his version is highly dependent on APE with all the whacked sh and perl scripts of 
> git-wrappers needing to go in /usr/glenda/share/git-core/templates or somewhere, so
> I’ve never used it.
> 
> If someone were to take on a fresh git port, it should definitely include a mkfile
> because that git/git/Makefile will take too long to parse and sort out the mess to
> get everything up and running on Plan 9.
> 
> -jas
> 
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