Justin M. Keyes wrote: > On 8/18/15, Bram Moolenaar <b...@moolenaar.net> wrote: > > > > There were a couple of hiccups, but the repository has moved to GitHub > > now. It's in the destination place: https://github.com/vim/vim > > > > Now we need to do the git cleanup. I'll hold off until it looks OK, > > https://github.com/vim/vim-tryout is what it would look like. > > At least it doesn't have the old branches. Apparently the import > > resurrected what the Mercurial cleanup was supposed to remove. > > Why was the _mercurial_ tag format changed in the google code > repository? This breaks all URLs using the old tag format: > > https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/detail?r=v7-4-827 > > Now the URL must be formatted like this: > > https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/detail?r=v7.4.827 > > What is the purpose of VCS tags if they're going to be changed? It is > part of the VCS history. Only new tags should use the new format, not > the old tags.
Yeah, it's not nice that old URLs stop working. Unfortunately you are too late with this remark, it already happened. We can't make both work, can we? -- A hamburger walks into a bar, and the bartender says: "I'm sorry, but we don't serve food here." /// Bram Moolenaar -- b...@moolenaar.net -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ an exciting new programming language -- http://www.Zimbu.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org /// -- -- You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
