[tz] A history maintaining repository for tzdata

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Sat Oct 8 18:22:11 UTC 2011


Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> Distributed version control systems are highly resilient against loss. In the
> normal mode of operation, everyone who checks out the repository gets a full
> copy of the history.  If the master is lost for whatever reason, the community
> can designate any sufficiently recent copy as the new master.
>
> BTW, there are tools for synchronizing changes between mercurial and git -- the
> maintainer can (for instance) use git as the master, but they, or anyone else so
> motivated, can clone it into hg, and both copies have the full change history.
> And the reverse is also possible (master in hg, slave in git).

Personally I run Hg locally simply because it works transparently on both Linux 
and Windows, something that git simply does not support ( tools are EITHER linux 
or windows ). But I don't have any problem simply cloning from a git repository 
and posting changes back ... it all just works transparently from Hg. Working 
the other way however is something of a pig as using hg from git support is 
simply not as good as hg using git ...

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