Hello, Georg and I have been working on converting the SVN repository to Mercurial. We can now present you a test repository (actually, two). CPython repository: http://hg.python.org/cpython/ ------------------ This is the main conversion repository. It contains all history of trunk and py3k (since 1990!) up to now, including all maintenance branches starting from 2.0 up to 3.2. If you are a core developer, get your local clone of the repository using: $ hg clone ssh://hg@hg.python.org/cpython (this uses the same SSH key as your Subversion access; for more information about Mercurial and SSH keys, see the converted development FAQ: http://potrou.net/hgdevguide/faq.html#faq ) If you are not a core developer: $ hg clone http://hg.python.org/cpython Your clone will contain the following branches: $ hg branches default 68026:f12ef116dd10 3.2 68025:cef92ee1a323 2.7 68010:8174d00d0797 3.1 67955:5be8b695ea86 2.6 67287:5e26a860eded 2.5 65464:e4ecac76e499 trunk 62750:800f6c92c3ed 3.0 60075:1d05144224fe 2.4 58552:df72cac1899e 2.3 45731:a3d9a9730743 2.2 40444:d55ddc8c8501 2.1 30171:06fcccf6eca8 2.0 18214:dc0dfc9565cd The branch "default" is the current py3k branch from SVN. The branch "trunk" represents SVN trunk history until 2.7 was branched for maintenance. The full list of tags is too long to print here, but you can get it using: $ hg tags The size of the repository on-disk is (depending on your filesystem): $ du -hs .hg 176M .hg (the size of the network transfer is estimated to be around 80MB) You can commit and even push to this repository (the latter if you are a core developer). Since this is a test repository, whatever you push will be discarded when we do the final conversion. CPython with extra history: http://hg.python.org/cpythonextrahist/ -------------------------- This repository is bigger, and has a much more complicated topology. It is a superset of the other repository, and contains the totality of the branches from the SVN repository (it has more than 450 repository heads, of which 87 non-closed). It also weighs quite a bit more: $ du -hs .hg 248M .hg This repository is unnecessary for development work, since even for history-digging purposes the normal repository has the necessary information. This repository is only to preserve historical record of some of the non-trunk development work from the SVN repository (such as orphaned/deleted feature branches). Development guide: http://potrou.net/hgdevguide/ ----------------- This is the development guide adapted for Mercurial. You can get its sources from the branch "hg_transition" in http://hg.python.org/devguide/. Regards Antoine.