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

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 at 13:14 Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:

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> On Jan 4, 2016, at 4:11 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 at 13:08 Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org> wrote:
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>> 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.)
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>> Is the plan to migrate the entire history or just master?
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> 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. ;)
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> It’s pretty easy to migrate the entire history (at least what’s in Hg)
> including all branches and tags.
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It's not about the difficulty as the size of the clone. E.g., if we make
Python 2 a separate repo does it buy us a lot of space savings (we need to
remember not everyone has broadband, so there is some potential balance to
be had between history vs. clone size)?
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