[python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully) in2016

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 at 13:08 Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:

> I've found that hggit works very well - I used it to migrate my work
> project to github and still use it to avoid having to deal with git. (My
> intent is to keep using it for Python as well.)
>
> Is the plan to migrate the entire history or just master?
>

TBD. Email beginning to outline the dependency graph for the transition
forthcoming once I finish a code review at work that some co-worker handed
to me when he went off to Australia for an extended holiday. ;)

-Brett


>
> Top-posted from my Windows Phone
> ------------------------------
> From: R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com>
> Sent: ‎1/‎5/‎2016 7:34
> To: python-committers <python-committers at python.org>
> Subject: Re: [python-committers] We will be moving to GitHub (hopefully)
> in2016
>
> On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:18:02 +0000, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 at 09:50 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have to admit that I'm not a big expert on Mercurial --> Git
> converters
> > > and the way I maintain this mirror may not be the best approach, so I
> > > encourage you folks to find a VCS guru to look into this for the "real"
> > > transition.
> > >
> >
> > That will be one of the early steps of the transition. :)
>
> Maybe The PSF could fund Eric Raymond to do this?  He's got
> beyond-the-basics tooling, and a fair bit of experience converting
> large projects.  He might even be able to clean up the older (svn)
> history along the way, although that might be too much to hope for ;)
>
> (Oh, and let me mention this while I'm thinking about it: we're going
> to have to do some extra work to make the hash links work in the bug
> tracker, since I don't think there's any a priori way to distinguish
> between hg hashes and git hashes.)
>
> --David
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