Re: Checking out src with Mercurial

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 12:36 PM Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 11:56:20AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> > > <quote>
> > > the way git works (tracking whole trees at a time, never single files),
> > > that ends up being very painful, because it's an "all or nothing"
> > > approach.
> > >
> > > So I'm hoping that if you guys are seriously considering git, you'd also
> > > split up the KDE repository so that it's not one single huge one, but with
> > > multiple smaller repositories
> > > </quote>
>
> Just so that above point is not missed. Above point is not out of date. It
> applies to both hg and git - splitting a large repository when using
> distributed ones.
>
> > This is out of date.  FreeBSD is moving to git.
>
> Interesting... I could not find that in official documents as yet. Yes,
> there have been git mirrors.

The last two status reports:
"The Core-initiated Git Transition Working Group continued to meet
over the last quarter of 2019. Their report is still forthcoming. "

https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2020-01-2020-03.html