<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 14:29 -0400, Steve Holden a écrit :<br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Great advice for the future, Antoine. Now can you help with the Hg<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">issue?<br></blockquote><br>As far as I understand it, this is not so much an hg issue than a<br>migration issue.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I had understood that *all* history was going to be retained. Did I<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">misremember or was I incorrectly advised?<br></blockquote><br>All mainline history has been kept, as well as "active" feature branches<br>(feature branches someone asked to be kept) (*). I don't know if<br>Alexander's changesets are part of that, since he didn't precise where<br>they were made in the SVN repos (if they were made in the sandbox,<br>chances are they weren't).<br><br>(*) Look at "history management" for more information:<br><a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/#history-management">http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/#history-management</a><br><br><br>Also, there are some kind of things that are possible in SVN land (for<br>example, copying some files from one branch/revision, other files from<br>another one, etc.) which cannot be expressed in hg terms. The migration<br>would have converted these changesets to a "dumber" form - without<br>losing the actual contents of the files.<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks for your detailed comments and feedback. I was clearly over-simplifying the situation.</div><div><br></div>regards<div> Steve<br><div>
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