Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:58:31 +0530 | From | "Trilok Soni" <> | Subject | Re: [PULL] http://www.linuxtv.org/hg/~hverkuil/v4l-dvb |
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Hi Mauro,
> > This is one of the lack of the features on mercurial. It doesn't have a meta > tag for committer. On mercurial, the -hg user and the author should be the same > person. > > Since we want to identify the patch origin (e.g. whose v4l/dvb maintainer got > the patch), we use the internal "user" meta-tag as the committer, and an extra > tag, at the patch description for the author (From:). > > When creating the -git patch, the "From:" tag is replaced, by script, for > "Author:", I add my SOB there, and, I add myself as the -git committer (on git > we have both meta-tags).
Isn't it good time to move v4l2-dvb tree to GIT? I am not aware of any hg-to-git repo. converter, but I can check with hg and git community. It could be difficult at first, but I am very confident that there are many GIT users here than mercurial, and yes your v4l-dvb maintenance process might change due move from GIT, but atleast you will not have to internal user meta-data per patch.
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