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Python switches to Mercurial

Posted Mar 30, 2009 16:38 UTC (Mon) by agrover (subscriber, #55381)
Parent article: Python switches to Mercurial

Are they going to import the whole project's history, I wonder?

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Posted Mar 30, 2009 17:38 UTC (Mon) by Wummel (subscriber, #7591) [Link]

I really hope they migrate history data. Losing history for such a popular project would be a major drawback.

There are a lot of tools available for converting svn to hg, for example hgsvn. So there is no technical hurdle to migrate the history data.

Python switches to Mercurial

Posted Mar 30, 2009 18:14 UTC (Mon) by djc (subscriber, #56880) [Link]

I'm pretty sure they'll migrate (at least most of) the history.

BTW, hgsvn is kind of the ugly duckling of conversion solutions now. Use hgsubversion or hg's convert extension.

Python switches to Mercurial

Posted Apr 1, 2009 17:10 UTC (Wed) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

I recommend tailor for converting histories between revision control tools:

http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/Tailor

Python switches to Mercurial

Posted Apr 2, 2009 1:13 UTC (Thu) by avassalotti (guest, #45540) [Link]

The Mercurial mirror at http://code.python.org/hg/ has pretty much the whole history of Python.