Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

[Iruata Souza <iru.muzgo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:06 AM, Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mercurial and git solve all replica problems, and some more.
>
> They are infinitely faster, more reliable, and more useful. And in
> some ways they are even conceptually simpler (I never quite understood
> some of the most subtle points of replica, like why it keeps saying it
> needs to update files that were already updated if I happen to have
> some local changes elsewhere, even when I have had them explained to
> me repeatedly, of course that is due to my own intellectual
> limitations, but...)
>
> The git codebase is considerably more complex, but that is because it
> does tons of things we don't really need to replace replica, I even
> got a port of git almost going. If it is agreed to replace replica
> with git, I will be happy to work on porting the latest git version.
> (It already works under linuxemu).
>
> Mercurial is much simpler (at some point it was about seven thousand
> lines of python, it has grown since, but the useful stuff was all
> already there), and it think some people got it to work with their
> various python ports (not sure which, there are so many that I lost
> track), and mjl has a very nice read only limbo implementation, and
> said making it write wouldn't be too hard (the tricky stuff is merges
> and such, which we don't really need to replace replica).
>
> So, all that is needed to get rid of replica is the determination to
> do so, and I'm sure many people will be happy to help in the effort.
>
> Peace
>
> uriel
>
> P.S.: Other problems this would solve is fast and efficient mirroring,
> web interfaces to the source and history, etc.
>
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
>>> But people keep telling me that replica's unreliability, painful
>>> slowness, and general clunkyness,  are all in my imagination, so what
>>> do I know...
>>
>> No, what we've told you, repeatedly, is that
>> whining about problems and fixing them are
>> two different things.  Fixes are appreciated.
>>
>> Russ
>>
>>
>
>

contrib/bichued has a working mercurial port.

iru