Re: [ANNOUNCE] Pyrite project.

["Govind Salinas" <blix@sophiasuchtig.com>]

On 1/26/08, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Govind Salinas" <blix@sophiasuchtig.com> writes:
>
> > I am starting a project that I hope some of you will be interested in.
> > I have been looking at DSCM tools for a few months now and I have
> > come away liking different aspects of different systems.  The project,
> > called Pyrite, aims to combine the best features of git and Mercurial.
> >
> > Please stop by http://pyrite.sophiasuchtig.com/ to see the
> > announcement.  Links to the public repo in there.
>
> From the description there it looks like Pyrite is (will be) something
> in between porcelain (SCM layer) like (now deprecated) Cogito, StGit,
> Guilt, and plumbings / reimplementation of Git, like jGit/eGit in Java
> and (planned?) Widgit in C#, rather than new SCM, isn't it?
>
Yes, I guess it's going a bit far to say that it's a new SCM since I
will be re-using the git internals.  Mostly I said that because I hope
to re-implement large parts of it.  It is more than a porcelain layer
though.  I prefer to think of it as a system based on both tools.

-Govind