Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-28 06:25:16

Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Dean Michael Berris <mikhailberis_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>> 4. How does mercurial deal with forks? In Git a repository is
>>> automatically a fork of the source repository. I don't know whether
>>> every mercurial repo is the same as a Git repo though -- meaning
>>> whether the same repository can be exposed to a number of protocols
>>> and dealt with like any other Git repo (push/pull/merge/compact, etc.)
>>
>> Your local repository can push/pull from any remote repository, and you
>> can set up a default remote repo for "hg push" and "hg pull" without a
>> repository path. I don't know the full set of protocol options; I use
>> local and http access.
>>
>
> Okay, but I think the thing I was asking was whether the same two
> repositories share the same history information?

Yes. A Mercurial clone is a full copy of the source repo, including all
history.

> However since hg and git can work with each other, I don't see why
> using either one would be a big problem as both have a pretty similar
> model looking at it from the outside. 

That's true. I might try out the hg-git extension
(http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgGit)

Anthony
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