[Python-Dev] hg conversion: tags (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Sep 27 17:28:51 CEST 2010

On Sep 27, 2010, at 04:52 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

I'd remove as many tags as makes sense, only keeping the release tags. Most others were made to quickly go back to a version before some change happened; however nobody would want to go back there anymore now. Just like my *-before-rstdocs tags, which I guess nobody ever used.

As for how to call the releases, while I'd prefer a bit less cryptic names, keeping the rXYZ convention is fine with me.

We're still going to keep the Subversion repository in read-only even after the conversion. Will the mapping between svn and hg revision numbers be preserved somehow?

If so, then I say in hg, nuke the tags we don't care about and sanitize the release tags to something that obvious and can't collide (e.g. r311 is 3.1.1 or 3.11? - yes despite Guido's Rule of Version Numbering). I'd personally be fine using the hexversion or even "3.1.1" as the tag name.

Since we're going to live with the converted repository until the Next Big Thing In Version Control , let's take the opportunity now to clean things up and make them nice.

I do think we should keep a mapping from new to old though. If that's not possible within the hg repository, can we at least generate a text file or some such and commit that?

-Barry

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