I think the problem with Apache extras is you get one Hg repository there and there are a bunch over at OpenOffice.org. So some sort of merge has to happen with respect to all of those child workspaces, etc.
Also, if I understood the discussion so far, the SVN history was not carried into the Hg repositories? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 11:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Repo][Proposal] OOO340 SVN Dump file import On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > --- On Mon, 8/15/11, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > ... >> We've been discussing for two months >> now how to get Hg over to SVN. >> There have been several suggestions for how the CWS's and >> complete revision history could be migrated over, but >> little progress has been made. Either the proposals >> didn't work, or no volunteers stepped forward to >> implement them. >> >> The alternative proposal was to just check in the tip of >> the trunk, without history, and then migrate Hg to >> Apache-Extras.org, where Hg is supported. I've made >> some progress on this proposal. >> > > I am afraid doing this will be an incomplete solution as > no one seems to be doing the HG migration to Apache-Extras > part. In sum, I suspect we will lose all history but > there seems to be no alternative if we want to start > development. > The migration to Apache-Extras is the easy part, right? It is just Hg to Hg. So we maintain the complete revision history that way. If someone has a more elegant solution, then, as always, "Patches are Welcome". > Will we also lose the bugzilla database? :-( > Why would we loose Bugzilla? > cheers, > > Pedro. >
