[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 26, 2011, at 11:45 PM, Adrian Buehlmann wrote:

>You'd have to take this up with Mercurial's BDFL Matt. He is a strong
>advocate for teaching users to learn edit their .hg/hgrc files.

Well, I guess it's doubtful I'd change his mind then. :)

>Regarding Bazaar: FWIW, I periodically retried the speed of 'bzr check'
>- and always gave up again looking at bzr due to the horrible slowness
>of that command. If I have to use a DVCS I want to be able to check the
>integrity of my clones in reasonable time. I do it with a cron job on
>our internal server here and I expect it to have finished checking all
>our repos when I get to my desk in the morning and look into my email
>inbox, reading the daily email with the result of the verify runs.
>
>After all, we do have everything secured with hashes, so we can use
>them, don't we?

Do you know how thorough 'bzr check' is?  I don't, but then I've never used it
or felt the need to. ;)

>> Oh, and 'bzr info' always tells you what the push and pull locations are.
>
>You can use 'hg paths' for that:

Nice, thanks.

-Barry
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