Personally I don't care if we use Git or Mercurial, what I do feel fairly strongly about is that whatever we do for Moz2D runs on our own infrastructure. If that infrastructure supports git I have no issues with it being in git. Although I've done my testing with hg subrepos only. For what it's worth I personally find our mix of mercurial and git extremely disturbing, and this once again goes to show the amount of problems that come from such an architecture. I'd find it quite sad if the fact we're in this situation would block progress on this front.
As to subrepository functionality, they seem to work well for our purposes, it's true that some complexities arise if you would like to do certain operations across repository boundaries but I didn't see a lot of cases where we'd actually want that. For what it's worth, I've worked with SVN externals before and found them quite nice to work with. But I must admit my experience with hg subrepos is limited to the testing I did. I've heard stories that mercurial subrepos work a lot better than git submodules, however I have even less experience with the latter. One argument for hg subrepos is that their type of functionality is pretty much -exactly- what we want/need for a great experience. This could be true for git submodules as well, but I have no idea if it is. Bas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Lebar" <justin.le...@gmail.com> To: "Gregory Szorc" <g...@mozilla.com> Cc: "Bas Schouten" <bschou...@mozilla.com>, "dev-platform" <dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:06:56 PM Subject: Re: Moz2D Repository Creation > hg-git (the tool we use to synchronize Mercurial and Git repos) supports > subrepos. Although, I'm not sure how well it works. Well, we should definitely figure this out before we move forward with this plan. If the hg support for git repos is decent, that might be a better way to go, since then we'd have one fewer repo we needed to mirror for B2G's purposes. Assuming that hg-git is happy with git submodules. :) > I haven't met many Git users who enjoy submodules, myself included. Git submodules suck, but so does importing library code via cp, as we do now. :-/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
