From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Announcing git-cinnabar 0.1.0 (Was: Announcing a new (prototype) git-remote-hg tool) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:32:09 +0900 Message-ID: <20150211093209.GA21128@glandium.org> References: <20141205205335.GA28935@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 11 10:32:41 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLTev-00059W-FU for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:32:37 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752174AbbBKJcW (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:32:22 -0500 Received: from ks3293202.kimsufi.com ([5.135.186.141]:33303 "EHLO glandium.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751418AbbBKJcS (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:32:18 -0500 Received: from glandium by zenigata with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1YLTeT-0005Yc-UV for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:32:09 +0900 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141205205335.GA28935@glandium.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 182E 161D 1130 B9FC CD7D B167 E42A A04F A6AA 8C72 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Cinnabar is the common natural form in which mercury can be found on Earth. It contains mercury sulfide and its powder is used to make the vermillion pigment. What does that have to do with git? Hint: mercury. Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from/to mercurial remote repositories, using git. If you've already seen the original thread this message is spawned from, this is the same tool, with a new name, and two months worth of additional work and testing. Where git-cinnabar stands out compared to other similar tools is that it doesn't use a local mercurial clone under the hood (unlike all the existing other such tools), and is close to an order of magnitude faster to clone a repository like http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central than the git-remote-hg tool that used to be shipped in contrib/. I won't claim it is exempt of problems and limitations, which is why it's not a 1.0. I'm however confident enough with its state to make the first "official" release. Code on https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar Cheers, Mike