[oe] Git versus Hg

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:58:21 +0100
Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl> wrote:

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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.
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> 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.

Heh, it seems that Git's spiritual ancestor, CVS, strikes back from
behind the facade of novelty features. That's good display that similar
design and implementation approaches lead to similar "features" for
users to work around. Well-well, I shutup, shutup.

> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen

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