"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> I don't know how hg manages this, but can't we preserve the tag >> information of the tags that you've scheduled to be removed >> in some place that can easily be pulled in but doesn't >> affect the main repo size ? > > Most certainly, and this is the plan already: we will keep the > subversion repository data "forever".
Fair enough. > If you want the CVS repository from the day when it was converted > to subversion, you can still get it from > > http://svn.python.org/snapshots/python-cvsroot-final.tar.bz2 > > (Created 27-Oct-2005 04:34, FWIW, so we are close to 5 years > into subversion usage. Given that the "public" usage of the CVS > started in 2000, we should start to look into the hg successor > around 2013, for a switchover in Oktober 2015 :-). Good idea :-) I suppose we'll have CVCSes by then - cloud version control systems. Let's reserve cloud number 9 for use by Python (cumulonimbus is too hard to remember) :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Sep 30 2010) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com