[petsc-dev] [mpich-discuss] MPICH migration to git

[Barry Smith]

On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:19 PM, Dmitry Karpeev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> My summary would be that
> 1. Git's ui is bad
> 2. There is the crappy index thingie
> 3.  I don't see how git branches are better than hg bookmarks (again, the ui is bad).
> 4. I still use multiple repos along with branches in git. 
> 5. I am willing to bet money Satish will use multiple repos, rather than branches.

   Thanks. This is why I want to see Jed and Satish's mapping; I don't want to change to git and then have a gotcha of "but that was easy in hg but is a big fucking pain in git and I have to do it every day".

   Barry

> 
> On Jan 9, 2013 10:12 PM, "Dmitry Karpeev" <karpeev at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jan 9, 2013 10:10 PM, "Sean Farley" <sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Dmitry Karpeev <karpeev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> > > I personally find git (and its branches) rather cumbersome and wish libmesh
> > > used mercurial instead :-)
> >
> > Not to mention git's atrocious interface.
> Yes, I forgot to mention that.
> >
> > > And if hgsubversion actually worked there would no need for git :-)
> >
> > I've used that to access libmesh all the time; what didn't work?