- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <me@gsnedders.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 21:44:49 +0000
- To: Peter Linss <w3c@linss.com>
- Cc: Revising W3C Process Community Group <public-w3process@w3.org>, Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex-team.ru>, Ted Guild <ted@w3.org>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Peter Linss <w3c@linss.com> wrote: > The commit history does in fact map back and forth 1:1 without loss, the > caveats are around branches. Mercurial does named branches somewhat > differently from git, so git branches are mapped into bookmarks in the hg > repo. Provided you don’t do a lot of branching, this generally isn’t an > issue (and if you do a lot of branching, teach your hg users to just use > bookmarks instead of named branches). You lose a bunch of stuff: from git -> hg, you lose the Committer fields in the metadata (as hg has no notion of it); from hg -> git you lose the knowledge of the branch name of historic commits (which I think is part of the above). /gs
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