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And in case you have missed it, there is work going on right now to add hg and bzr remote-helper support to git. In particular, if you look at the latest RC announcement[1] for git v1.8.1 we see * A new remote-helper interface for Mercurial has been added to contrib/remote-helpers. and in the most recent "What's cooking"[2] (dev updates) we see * fc/remote-bzr (2012-12-13) 10 commits [snipped] New remote helper for bzr (v3). With minor fixes, this may be ready for 'next'. A big hats off to Felipe Contreras[4] who has done a lot of work to get these updates rolled out. Not sure how many others have been involved, but thanks! The latest RC is available from the usual places, for example [3]. [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1410998 [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/21202... [3] https://github.com/

You can find it in contrib: https://github.com/gitster/git/tree/master/contrib/credentia... See man 7 gitcredentials on how to set it up.

I want to really re-iterate how great Junio Hamano has been as a git maintainer, and I haven't had to worry about git development for the last five years or so. Junio has been an exemplary maintainer, and shown great taste Having listened in on the git developers mailing list for the last few years, occasionally getting involved, I can re-iterate how true this is. Sure, git development uses some anachronistic-feeling conventions (like mailed patch-sets) but these all have reason behind them and exist because they work for the people who are working on git. I don't know how many of the processes are held over from before Junio got involved, however both those processes and how Junio handles the entire thing are a great case study on how open source can be done. Some entry points for interested people: https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/ma

Additionally useful: Text file explaining the command and usage (from the commit): https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/634392b26275fe5436c0ea13... Examples are at the bottom.

Check out git's "make rpm" target. https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/master/Makefile Hosting your own apt/yum repo is pretty simple. Does anyone have an example of a similar "make deb" target they could share? I've heard of git-dpm and git-buildpackage but haven't used them extensively myself. They're the debian git packaging tools. http://wiki.debian.org/PackagingWithGit

I found some 'tests' in this folder: https://github.com/gitster/git But where are all the other tests? E.g. merging, diffing, etc are all units and thus easy to test, but I couldn't find some. Are there any tests? How is the git community guarantee that all still works, if they rewrite parts or make substantial changes?