On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Daniel Hahler wrote: > James McCoy wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > > On Do, 23 Apr 2015, Daniel Hahler wrote: > > > >> in the process of moving the repository to Github I suggest using the > > >> existing mirror from https://github.com/vim-jp/vim as a starting > > >> point. > > > > > > As a starting point for what? I think what is going to happen, is that > > > the googlecode repository will be migrated into github (probably using > > > the Export to Github button) > > > > Using that export mangles the history of the repository by, at > > the very least, removing all traces of the .hgtags file. This > > means that there will be no shared history between > > https://github.com/vim/vim and any existing Git mirror (e.g., > > vim-jp's mirror, my mirror, MacVim's mirror, etc.). This also > > means that any Mercurial mirror of the Git mirror won't have the > > same history as the existing Mercurial repository. > > Even if the .hgtags weren't mangled, it is unlikely that Google's export would > result in the same history.
Why? There are multiple, independently created Git mirrors of the Mercurial repository with the same history. hg-git seems to be the predominant tool of choice to bridge between Mercurial and Git right now (although git-cinnabar is an interesting new alternative). As long as they're using hg-git and not doing any history rewriting, it should be the same. > > If there's a desire to change the contents of the repository, > > that should simply be done after the conversion to Git, instead > > of changing published history. > > Can you elaborate on what you mean with this? > What change to the contents of the repo do you mean? I mean that instead of removing the history of .hgtags from the repo, simply commit a delete of the file after the final conversion to git. Yes, all the previous commits that touch the file are still there, but that's fine. That's the history of the repository. Published history should not be changed. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <[email protected]> -- -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
