Re: Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
From: Pavel Machek <hidden>
Date: 2005-06-27 18:31:39
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Hi!
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Things in git-land are moving at lightning speed, and usability has improved a lot since my post a month ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11And here's a quick comparison with the current state of Mercurial..quoted
1) installing git git requires bootstrapping, since you must have git installed in order to check out git.git (git repo), and linux-2.6.git (kernel repo). I have put together a bootstrap tarball of today's git repository. Download tarball from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-20050622.tar.bz2 tarball build-deps: zlib, libcurl, libcrypto (openssl) install tarball: unpack && make && sudo make prefix=/usr/local install jgarzik helper scripts, not in official git distribution: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-new-branch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/git-changes-script After reading the rest of this document, come back and update your copy of git to the latest: rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/git.gitDownload from: http://selenic.com/mercurial/mercurial-snapshot.tar.gz Build-deps: Python 2.3 Install: unpack && python setup.py install [--home=/usr/local]
Did that... (had to install python2.3-dev, first), but got...
$ mkdir linux-2.6 $ cd linux-2.6 $ hg init http://www.kernel.org/hg/ # obviously you can also browse this This downloads about 125M of data, which include the whole kernel history back to 2.4.0 and everything in Linus' git repo as well.
byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/fancyopts.py to fancyopts.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/hg.py to hg.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/hgweb.py to hgweb.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/httprangereader.py to httprangereader.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/lock.py to lock.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/mdiff.py to mdiff.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/revlog.py to revlog.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/transaction.py to transaction.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/ui.py to ui.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/util.py to util.pyc byte-compiling /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/version.py to version.pyc running install_scripts copying build/scripts-2.3/hg -> /usr/local/bin copying build/scripts-2.3/hgmerge -> /usr/local/bin changing mode of /usr/local/bin/hg to 755 changing mode of /usr/local/bin/hgmerge to 755 running install_data creating /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/map -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/map-raw -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/changelog.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/changelogentry.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/changeset-raw.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/changeset.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/fileannotate.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/filediff-raw.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/filediff.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/filelog.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/filelogentry.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/filerevision-raw.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/filerevision.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/footer.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/header-raw.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/header.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/manifest.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates copying templates/tags.tmpl -> /usr/local/lib/python/mercurial/templates root@Elf:/data/tmp/hg/mercurial-snapshot# Use "exit" to leave the shell. root@Elf:/data/tmp/hg/mercurial-snapshot# exit pavel@Elf:/data/tmp/hg/mercurial-snapshot$ cd ../.. pavel@Elf:/data/tmp$ mkdir linux-hg pavel@Elf:/data/tmp$ cd linux-hg/ pavel@Elf:/data/tmp/linux-hg$ hg init http://www.kernel.org/hg/ Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/hg", line 11, in ? from mercurial import commands ImportError: No module named mercurial pavel@Elf:/data/tmp/linux-hg$ Pavel -- teflon -- maybe it is a trademark, but it should not be.