From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f215.google.com ([209.85.219.215]:64047 "EHLO mail-ew0-f215.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753016AbZLAPoN (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:44:13 -0500 Received: by ewy7 with SMTP id 7so5950907ewy.28 for ; Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:44:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:44:13 +0100 From: Domenico Andreoli To: Linux Media Mailing List Subject: Re: Replace Mercurial with GIT as SCM Message-ID: <20091201154413.GA11696@raptus.dandreoli.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 03:59:20PM +0100, Patrick Boettcher wrote: > Hi all, hi, > I would like to start a discussion which ideally results in either > changing the SCM of v4l-dvb to git _or_ leaving everything as it is > today with mercurial. i should not be stopped by a tool i'm not familiar with (that is hg) but actually it is a barrier for me. i'd like to regularly follow v4l-dvb and surely with git i'd not waste the time as with hg. the result is that i have a separate git tree for "my" tw68xx driver and the integration with v4l-dvb and hg is not my topomost priority given also that everything needs to be ported back to git before kernel inclusion. while i accept that people doing real work should use the tool the prefer i consider this fracture with the kernel SCM a mistake. this is only my opinion, my intent is not to start any flamewar. regards, Domenico -----[ Domenico Andreoli, aka cavok --[ http://www.dandreoli.com/gpgkey.asc ---[ 3A0F 2F80 F79C 678A 8936 4FEE 0677 9033 A20E BC50