fastimport extension under new management

Patrick Mézard pmezard at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 14:44:29 CDT 2009


Benoit Boissinot a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 09:56:49PM -0400, Greg Ward wrote:
>> Hi folks --
>>
>> silly me. I went and hacked on hg-fastimport and emailed the patches
>> to Paul Crowley, the original author.  He wrote back and said he's no
>> longer maintaining the code, and I'm welcome to it.  So it looks like
>> I am the proud owner of one serviceable, but slightly rough around the
>> edges, hg-fastimport extension.  Yikes!
> 
> Probably an FAQ, but why isn't fast import integrated with the convert
> extension ?

Just my 2 cents, IIRC, convert models differs a lot from fastimport. Trying to fold one into another would probably hamper all the advantages fast-import may bring in, especially performance wise.

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Patrick Mézard



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