On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:54:46 +0100
"Martin v. Löwis"
Am 28.02.2011 23:45, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
Le lundi 28 février 2011 à 23:26 +0100, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :
In preparation for the hg switch, I would recommend that, if you have any feature branches managed with svnmerge, you sync them with the py3k branch before we switch. That way, it will make it easier to "bridge the gap" when you create a new repository for your work after the switch (the svnmerge information isn't retained in the converted repo).
Is that really going to work? I.e. will Mercurial be able to merge from default to one of the feature branches? If so, what will be the procedure? What would be the exact steps to try this out on the PEP 382 branch (say)?
I've sketched out the steps in http://potrou.net/hgdevguide/committing.html#long-term-development-of-featur...
It doesn't cover importing work from SVN
But that's what I was specifically asking about: if I svnmerge my feature branch now - what specifically do I gain? Why are you asking me to do that? Why does doing so make it easier to "bridge the gap"?
Because you don't have to find whichever faraway changeset on which to base your initial changes. You can just apply your patch on the latest "default" changeset in the Mercurial repository and, in all likelihood, you won't get any conflicts. Regards Antoine.