[python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

[Steve Holden]

On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 14:29 -0400, Steve Holden a écrit :
>> 
>> Great advice for the future, Antoine. Now can you help with the Hg
>> issue?
> 
> As far as I understand it, this is not so much an hg issue than a
> migration issue.
> 
>> I had understood that *all* history was going to be retained. Did I
>> misremember or was I incorrectly advised?
> 
> All mainline history has been kept, as well as "active" feature branches
> (feature branches someone asked to be kept) (*). I don't know if
> Alexander's changesets are part of that, since he didn't precise where
> they were made in the SVN repos (if they were made in the sandbox,
> chances are they weren't).
> 
> (*) Look at "history management" for more information:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/#history-management
> 
> 
> Also, there are some kind of things that are possible in SVN land (for
> example, copying some files from one branch/revision, other files from
> another one, etc.) which cannot be expressed in hg terms. The migration
> would have converted these changesets to a "dumber" form - without
> losing the actual contents of the files.
> 

Thanks for your detailed comments and feedback. I was clearly over-simplifying the situation.

regards
 Steve
-- 
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com



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