Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: .. > Ok, I've found a later message: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-August/090959.html > This post precedes the creation of py3k-datetime branch, so no wonder that it was not mentioned. I wonder, though why sandbox was no

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 18:25 -0400, Alexander Belopolsky a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > .. > > A quick search found the following message by Dirkjan, but it is likely > > earlier messages on the subject had been posted too: > > http://mail.python.org/piperma

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: .. > A quick search found the following message by Dirkjan, but it is likely > earlier messages on the subject had been posted too: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090325.html > No wonder I missed that. I assume you a

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Regardless, since Alexander's previous work was in the sandbox repo (not > the python repo), I don't think it would have been possible to integrate > it during the hg migration. See the message I just sent - it's *not* a separate repository (else subversion would not be able to reconstruct the f

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> It looks like this history survived the cvs to svn migration, but was > lost in migration to hg. It's not there anymore, but it isn't lost, either - you can still get it from svn if you want to (and should still be able to do so twenty years from now if you care - just as you can still get the o

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le lundi 25 avril 2011 à 17:43 -0400, R. David Murray a écrit : > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:00:21 -0400, Alexander Belopolsky > wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > .. > > > All mainline history has been kept, as well as "active" feature branches > > > (feature bran

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread R. David Murray
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:00:21 -0400, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > .. > > 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 changese

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: .. > 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 S

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 2:57 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> Can you be more precise? How did you do that? > > See the example that he gave, e.g. r82065. The changes are in > /sandbox/branches/py3k-datetime. Martin mostly answered Antoine's question for me.You can get more details by comparin

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > I propose that the redirector (hg.../lookup) redirects to the subversion > viewer if it can't find a matching hg revision. That sounds like an extremely user-friendly solution. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com _

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
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 ha

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Can you be more precise? How did you do that? See the example that he gave, e.g. r82065. The changes are in /sandbox/branches/py3k-datetime. >> However, hg log of this file starts with my commit about a year ago. >> Is it possible to re-add the old history? > > We cannot "add" any past history

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
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 >

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Steve Holden
On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: >> The history of datetime.py >> is very helpful for understanding various design decisions implemented >> in that module. > > I would advise to document design decisions in source code comments or > in a separate file. Having to dig in VCS logs,

Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Sorry, reply initially sent off-list. Message transféré De: Antoine Pitrou À: Alexander Belopolsky Sujet: Re: [python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:58:50 +0200 > When I committed Lib/datetime.py to svn, I made sure that it

[python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

2011-04-25 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
I am not sure where to report such issues, so I'll post it here. Please advise if another list is more appropriate. When I committed Lib/datetime.py to svn, I made sure that it was done in a way that preserved the history of that file going back to 2002. However, hg log of this file starts with my