{"id":3502,"date":"2015-02-11T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2015-02-11T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:51:46","slug":"announcing-git-cinnabar-0-1-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"Announcing git-cinnabar 0.1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may or may not know, I have been working on this project<\/a> for quite some time, but actually really started the most critical<\/a> parts<\/a> a couple months ago. After having looked for (and chosen) a new name<\/a> for what was a prototype project, it's now time for a very first release.<\/p>\n

So what is this all about?<\/p>\n

Cinnabar is the common natural form in which mercury can be found on Earth. It contains mercury sulfide and its powder is used to make the vermillion pigment.<\/p>\n

What does that have to do with git<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Hint: mercury.<\/p>\n

Git-cinnabar is a git remote helper (you can think of that as a plugin) to interact with mercurial repositories. It allows to clone, pull and push from\/to mercurial remote repositories, using git.<\/p>\n

Numerous such tools already exist. Where git-cinnabar stands out is that it doesn't use a local mercurial clone under the hood (unlike all the existing other such tools), and is close to an order of magnitude faster to clone a repository like mozilla-central<\/a> than the git-remote-hg<\/a> that used to be shipped as a contrib to git.<\/p>\n

I won't claim it is exempt of problems and limitations, which is why it's not a 1.0. I'm however confident enough with its state to make the first \"official\" release.<\/p>\n

Get it on github<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you've been using the prototype, you can actually continue to use that clone and update it. Github conveniently keeps things working after a rename. You can update the remote url if you feel like it, though.<\/p>\n

If you are a Gecko developer, you can take a look at a possible workflow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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