Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] git-darcs-import 0.1

2008/6/3 Darrin Thompson :

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:

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Hi,

I'm pleased to announce yet another tool for importing darcs repositories to git. Unlike darcs2git [1] and darcs-to-git [2], it's written in Haskell, on top of the darcs2 source code. The result is a much faster program - it can convert the complete ghc 6.9 branch (without libraries) in less than 15 minutes on my slightly dated machine (Athlon XP 2500+), which is quite fast [3]. Incremental updates work, too.

What's the appeal of this? I personally love git, but I thought all the cool kids at this school used darcs and that was that.

Disclaimer: I'm no expert, this is what I've heard. Anyone please confirm or deny the following? Basically, git is waaay faster than Darcs on a number of use cases. So, maybe the point of using this converter is when you just cannot use Darcs any more (too old/big project, merging huge branch with loads of conflicts, I don't know). Another point may be "broadcast-ability": It is possible to expose two repositories: one Darcs, one Git. If I use Git and not Darcs (please don't sue me), it will be simpler for me to get the source from the Git snapshot, provided there is one. Well, if I want to contribute back... maybe I should switch. I think the True Heresy (and most useful, if practical) would be to convert back and forth between the two version control systems, accepting patches from both :-) Loup