On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 14:29 -0400, Steve Holden a écrit : >> >> Great advice for the future, Antoine. Now can you help with the Hg >> issue? > > As far as I understand it, this is not so much an hg issue than a > migration issue. > >> I had understood that *all* history was going to be retained. Did I >> misremember or was I incorrectly advised? > > All mainline history has been kept, as well as "active" feature branches > (feature branches someone asked to be kept) (*). I don't know if > Alexander's changesets are part of that, since he didn't precise where > they were made in the SVN repos (if they were made in the sandbox, > chances are they weren't). > > (*) Look at "history management" for more information: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0385/#history-management > > > Also, there are some kind of things that are possible in SVN land (for > example, copying some files from one branch/revision, other files from > another one, etc.) which cannot be expressed in hg terms. The migration > would have converted these changesets to a "dumber" form - without > losing the actual contents of the files. >
Thanks for your detailed comments and feedback. I was clearly over-simplifying the situation. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com
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