From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Git/Mercurial interoperability (and what about bzr?) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20081028191234.GS24201@genesis.frugalware.org> <20081028213144.GC10862@mit.edu> <87ljw3zx8i.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87abcjpvy2.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20081101133931.GC8134@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Florian Weimer , Jakub Narebski , git@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 01 18:54:09 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KwKfo-00035q-IC for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:54:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751771AbYKARwx (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:52:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752099AbYKARwx (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:52:53 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:34149 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751735AbYKARww (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 13:52:52 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id mA1Hpqcv027783 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:51:53 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id mA1HppRa020558; Sat, 1 Nov 2008 10:51:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20081101133931.GC8134@mit.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.442 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > .hgtags is stored as a versioned file in Mercurial. That's one of the > problems, and it leads to no shortage of headaches. I told people this was insane long long ago, and I thought the hg people had learnt to use local tags. They act sanely, as far as I know (ie they act the same way git tags do). Of course, the problem with hg local tags is that hg apparently has no sane way to _propagate_ such local tag-space information from one repository to another. But that's purely a problem with hg itself. I don't know why that hasn't gotten fixed. Linus