On Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 18:45 Senthil Kumaran <sent...@uthcode.com> wrote:
> Hi Brett, > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > >> Now that I'm comfortable declaring the code for the CLA bot finished ( >> https://github.com/python/the-knights-who-say-ni), the next step is to >> finalize the command(s) we are going to use to convert hg repositories to >> git for migration to GitHub. Senthil, are you ready to make a final >> decision? >> > > Yes. I did experiments while collating points from others with multiple > tools and I found that hg-git could be suitable for our export. > It won't be a single command due to the size of our repo. It will be a > multi-step process. > > 1. Initialize local a bare git repo > 2. Use hg-git to migrate from local hg to local git repo. > (Ensure the migration was complete. With branches as desired). > 3. And finally, push the local git repo, 1000s of commits at a time to > remote repo. > > I had tried it myself and was successful with this approach. > https://github.com/orsenthil/cpython-hg-to-git > > The other tools and approaches I tried had failed for me. > > Here's my plan and a to do: > > 1. Even though it is a one-time operation, I plan to convert above steps > into a trivial tool that we can use and verify independently. > 2. Once we are satisfied with our local trials, you could use this tool > once to convert the hg repo and push to canonical git repo. > > todo > > * I haven't talked to the maintainer of https://github.com/python/cpython > repo yet. I should do that and see what differences will be between the > semi-official mirror and repo created by the importing tool. It will help > us make a more informed decision. > > I will follow up an update on this and the tool. > Great! Obviously the tool is more important as that is a blocker for devinabox while talking to Eli Bendersky about the mirror isn't. -Brett > Thanks, > Senthil > > > >
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