[core-workflow] Migration PEP started

[Oleg Broytman]

Hi!

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:25:06AM +0000, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> PEP is still not done, but I have at least fleshed out the parts required
> to migrate the code-only and web-related repositories:
> https://github.com/brettcannon/github-transition-pep/blob/master/pep-NNNN.rst .

> Continuous integration per pull request
> XXX https://travis-ci.org/ https://codeship.com/ https://circleci.com/

   No buildbot?

> Tools and commands to move from Mercurial to Git
> A decision needs to be made on exactly what tooling and what commands
> involving those tools will be used to convert a Mercurial repository to
> Git. Currently a suggestion has been made to use
> https://github.com/frej/fast-export.

   My personal experience with fast-export was a bit negative when I
tried to convert a repository for a complex project with a number of
branches and a lot of tags. I switched to git-remote-hg [1] and found it
much better for my needs. See Comparison [2].

1. https://github.com/felipec/git-remote-hg
2. https://github.com/felipec/git/wiki/Comparison-of-git-remote-hg-alternatives

Oleg.
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