[core-workflow] Time to decide how to convert hg repos to git

[Brian Curtin]

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Michiel Overtoom <motoom at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Are you aware the work ESR did for liberating source code repositories and moving them between version control systems? It also supports editing version-control repository history.
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>    http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/
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> He used it to port the Emacs repository to git, not an easy feat, and blogged about it: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5634 and  http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5211

There was talk about this on python-committers (and on this list, I
think) but there seem to be more than enough other tools that can do
the job and aren't associated with ESR.