David M. Cooke wrote: > On Jan 8, 2008, at 04:36 , David Cournapeau wrote: > > >> Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> if you want to play with Mercurial now (without forcing everyone else >>> to leave svn), I suggest this: >>> >>> http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/hgsvn >>> >>> I tried that and it works. It's a very easy way to create a hg mirror >>> at your computer. And then you can take this >>> as the official upstream repository (which you don't have write >>> access >>> to). Whenever somone commits >>> to the svn, you just do hgpullsvn and it updates your mercurial repo. >>> >>> Then you just clone it and create branches, for example the scons >>> branch can be easily managed like this. >>> Then you prepare patches, against your "official local mercurial >>> mirror", using for example >>> "hg export", or something, those patches should be possible to apply >>> against the svn repository as well. >>> You sent them for review and then (you or someone else) commit them >>> using svn, then you'll "hgpullsvn" your local mercurial mirror and >>> merge the changes to all your other branches. >>> >>> >> The main problem if this approach is that it is quite heavy on the svn >> server; that's why it would be better if the mirrors are done only >> once, >> and are publicly available, I think. Besides, it is easier (and >> faster) >> to do the mirrors locally (or from the file:// method, or from a svn >> dump; both mercurial and bzr have methods to import from those) >> > > > At least for mercurial's convert command, it's a one-time thing It's a one-time thing per person. If many people do it, I am just afraid it will overload the servers. Since several people seemed interested in mercurial, it may make sense to have a public repository. > AFAIK, all the tools can specify a svn revision to start from, if you > don't need history (or just recent history). > > Are you sure ? bzr-svn does not do it (logically, since bzr-svn can pull/push), and I don't see any option from the convert extension from mercurial. I don't have hgpullsvn at hand, I don't remember having seen the option either.
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