PS: I wonder, was there history lost as part of the past move to Hg? I had the
sense it was preserved, but am now unsure.
History was fully preserved, and full history is very important if you want to
work on the code.
During both the CVS->SVN and the SVN->HG migration only the trunk got
imported and the evolution on the branches was forgotten. Since all the
good branches were merged into trunk anyway no code was lost, but the
history became barely usable, because the work of a each CWS was merged
as one huge patch:
e.g. http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/rev/3d0fcd312
So individual commits and their comments were drowned in that big
resulting patch.
History only got fully preserved in the sense that after the migrations
both CVS and SVN servers were still readable but not in the sense that
the conversion result contained the history.
To help me understand the status and background of some code I had to
get the complete svn-history including all branches as a local git
repository and use that. Only few people seemed to care about proper
history though as for many developers only the latest tip/head matters
and I heard nobody else complain about the "optimized" history.
Best regards,
Herbert Duerr
