[oe] Git versus Hg

[Koen Kooi]

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Philip Balister schreef:
| Given the only serious contenders for possible SCM's for OE appear to be
| git or Hg, I am curious about the expertise level available on this list.

A big problem with git:

* it cannot import a flat OE repository (e.g a mtn checkout of .dev)
* it cannot import a OE repo with history (e.g with mtn2git)

Why? Git can't store empty dirs, and we use that in a few key places in
OE. Holger 'solved' that in mtn2git by putting in a lot .dummy files
into those dirs, but those will end up in your packages and rootfses.

regards,

Koen

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