hg-git and round-tripping (and file copies?)

[Danek Duvall]

Sean Farley wrote:

> Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at oracle.com> writes:
> 
> > Mike Hommey wrote:
> >
> >> If your goal trying to round-trip between mercurial and git is to
> >> provide developers with the possibility to use mercurial or git as they
> >> like, and somehow make it work with developers pushing on both ends, you
> >> should instead use a single source of truth (mercurial or git, whichever
> >> you prefer keeping a server for), and let developers use conversion tools
> >> on their end. hg-git can be used by developers who prefer mercurial when
> >> the server is git (although it annoyingly adds visible metadata to git
> >> commits in that case). git-cinnabar or git-remote-hg can be used by
> >> developers who prefer git when the server is mercurial. (full
> >> disclosure, I'm the author of git-cinnabar)
> >
> > Our source of truth is mercurial.  But our (Oracle Solaris) external,
> > read-only mirror is being moved from a mercurial repo on java.net to
> > github.
> 
> :-(

My thoughts exactly.

Danek