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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Sep 30 00:15:43 CEST 2010

I don't know how hg manages this, but can't we preserve the tag information of the tags that you've scheduled to be removed in some place that can easily be pulled in but doesn't affect the main repo size ?

Most certainly, and this is the plan already: we will keep the subversion repository data "forever".

If you want the CVS repository from the day when it was converted to subversion, you can still get it from

http://svn.python.org/snapshots/python-cvsroot-final.tar.bz2

(Created 27-Oct-2005 04:34, FWIW, so we are close to 5 years into subversion usage. Given that the "public" usage of the CVS started in 2000, we should start to look into the hg successor around 2013, for a switchover in Oktober 2015 :-).

Regards, Martin

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