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From: Brendan Cully <brendan@cs.ubc.ca>
Subject: Re: ioemu
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 10:06:26 -0700
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On Monday, 01 September 2008 at 11:05, Ian Jackson wrote:
> We won't be doing this.  The point of using git rather than hg is to
> much more easily manage the interactions and patch workflows between
> the various branches of qemu, of which ioemu-remote is just one.
> 
> Dealing well with this kind of forked up trainwreck requires a lot of
> heavy lifting from the revision control system.  git can do this
> (despite the appalling user interface) and hg can't.

As a mercurial developer I'd be very interested in knowing more
specifically what functionality hg is missing. The big two pieces I'm
aware of are git-style branches and rebase support. We've just gotten
a nice rebase extension out of the google summer of code, and I have
an extension called "localbranch" that provides a sort of git branch.