[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: progress report (PEP 385)

[Dirkjan Ochtman]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 00:37, Barry Warsaw<barry at python.org> wrote:
> Doesn't Mercurial support an Subversion bridge?  Would it be possible to
> provide a /read-only/ copy of the hg branches for 2.4 (maybe), 2.5, 2.6, and
> 3.1?  If so, then the release managers would simply have to cut their
> releases from the svn copy instead of the hg master.  /All/ other work would
> be done from the hg master.  This shouldn't be too much of a burden since
> it's done so rarely and would end with the EOL of each of those branches.

There is some push support in hgsubversion, but it doesn't do tags at
this time, for example. I think this setup would be needlessly
complicated (and tools will need to learn the new revision specifier
anyway, so why not have it learn them sooner rather than later)?

Cheers,

Dirkjan