Migrate Mifos source code from Subversion to Mercurial
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Key: MIFOSADMIN-22
URL: http://mifosforge.jira.com/browse/MIFOSADMIN-22
Project: mifos infrastructure
Issue Type: New Feature
Reporter: Adam Monsen
Priority: Major
h2. Overview
* have a plan for how to mange hg repository
* make mifos pull revision info from hg rather than svn
* migrate repository SVN -> hg
* some time to come up to speed hg
* update documention (mifos.org)
* get hudson working on mercurial
h2. Notes
* http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension
** should be able to handle branches, trunk, tags, but what do we do about
non-standard directories like "cheetah", "documents", "spikes"?
* what about Windows vs. UNIX line endings?
** inconsistent line endings "can often be a problem when
merging":http://www.mifos.org/developers/wiki/DeveloperSetup#svn-line-endings
**
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FAQ#FAQ.2BAC8-TechnicalDetails.What_about_Windows_line_endings_vs._Unix_line_endings.3F
** do we need the "Win32text
extension":http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Win32TextExtension to ease Windows
and *NIX collaboration?
* does Mercurial work well with Hudson?
** look for a hg plugin, try it out
* does Mercurial work well with Eclipse?
** update/branch/tag/compare/switch
* can Mercurial efficiently handle the Mifos source tree?
** should be able to set up a new test repo on sourceforge.net
** try cloning, pushing, pulling
* remove branches/trunk/tags dirs from spikes/maven-plugins and spikes/plugins
(move everything in "trunk" up a folder)
* move "cheetah" and "spikes" top-level folders to a new separate repository
* leave "documents" in Subversion? (or move to a new separate repository)
* learn
** http://hginit.com/
** http://mercurial.selenic.com/learn/
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