[Python-Dev] Mercurial? (original) (raw)

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 11:14:37 CEST 2009

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:06 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Off the top of my head, the following is needed for a successful migration:

 - Verify that the repository at http://code.python.org/hg/ is properly converted. I see that this has four branches. What about all the other branches? Will they be converted, or not? What about the stuff outside /python? In particular, the Stackless people have requested that they move along with what core Python does, so their code should also be converted.

I don't know the capabilities of hg w.r.t svn conversion, so this may well be overkill, but git has a really good tool for svn conversion (svn-all-fast-export, developed by KDE). You can handle almost any svn organization (e.g. outside the usual trunk/tags/branches), and convert email addresses of committers, split one big svn repo into subprojects, etc... Then, the git repo could be converted to hg relatively easily I believe.

cheers,

David

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