From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Govind Salinas" Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Pyrite project. Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:16:26 -0600 Message-ID: <5d46db230801260816r350140d0k3f0e3b664ea8b41e@mail.gmail.com> References: <5d46db230801260127pf6f7a2fwfc8f35884a6322e@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Git Mailing List" To: "Jakub Narebski" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jan 26 17:17:05 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JIniK-0005rz-BX for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:17:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752342AbYAZQQa (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:16:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752298AbYAZQQ3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:16:29 -0500 Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.241]:53963 "EHLO hs-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751814AbYAZQQ2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:16:28 -0500 Received: by hs-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 54so940047hsz.5 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.157.11 with SMTP id f11mr1376074ybe.108.1201364186809; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:16:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.156.18 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:16:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: a377ed5ecd2ad2f4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 1/26/08, Jakub Narebski wrote: > "Govind Salinas" 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