On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 15:15, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> I don't know how hg manages this, but can't we preserve the tag >> information of the tags that you've scheduled to be removed >> in some place that can easily be pulled in but doesn't >> affect the main repo size ? > > Most certainly, and this is the plan already: we will keep the > subversion repository data "forever". > > If you want the CVS repository from the day when it was converted > to subversion, you can still get it from > > http://svn.python.org/snapshots/python-cvsroot-final.tar.bz2 > > (Created 27-Oct-2005 04:34, FWIW, so we are close to 5 years > into subversion usage. Given that the "public" usage of the CVS > started in 2000, we should start to look into the hg successor > around 2013, for a switchover in Oktober 2015 :-).
Just so people know, I am *not* leading that charge. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
