Re: [new] devel/git-cinnabar, a git remote helper to talk to hg repos

On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 07:05:46PM +0100, Landry Breuil wrote:
> hi,
>
> hg is so painful and slow.. so here's a port for git-cinnabar, which
> allows me to talk to mozilla mercurial servers, but working locally with
> git.
>
> https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar/wiki/Mozilla:-A-git-workflow-for-Gecko-development
>
> i'm not sure i will be needing it for long given
> https://glandium.org/blog/?p=4346, but for now it works and helps !
>
> feedback welcome. oks too :)

Cloning an hg repo works fine once you install mercurial. That
doesn't sound obvious - to me at least. If hg(1) is needed every time
you need to talk to the repo (no idea), maybe add mercurial to
RUN_DEPENDS?

Except for this, LGTM.

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jca