On Aug 19, 2015 5:57 PM, "Markus Heidelberg" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> Am Mittwoch, 19. August 2015, 15:03:38 schrieb Olaf Dabrunz:
> > On 19-Aug-15, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > >
> > > Justin M. Keyes wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 8/18/15, Bram Moolenaar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > There were a couple of hiccups, but the repository has moved to
GitHub
> > > > > now.  It's in the destination place: https://github.com/vim/vim
> > > > >
> > > > > Now we need to do the git cleanup.  I'll hold off until it looks
OK,
> > > > > https://github.com/vim/vim-tryout is what it would look like.
> > > > > At least it doesn't have the old branches.  Apparently the import
> > > > > resurrected what the Mercurial cleanup was supposed to remove.
> > > >
> > > > Why was the _mercurial_ tag format changed in the google code
> > > > repository? This breaks all URLs using the old tag format:
> > > >
> > > > https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/detail?r=v7-4-827
> > > >
> > > > Now the URL must be formatted like this:
> > > >
> > > > https://code.google.com/p/vim/source/detail?r=v7.4.827
> > > >
> > > > What is the purpose of VCS tags if they're going to be changed? It
is
> > > > part of the VCS history. Only new tags should use the new  format,
not
> > > > the old tags.
>
> In principle you are right, but it is different for this HG repository.
>
> AFAIR Bram would have removed the stale HG repository after the move to
> Git if it were possible, but it wasn't. Then the URLs immediately would
> not have been accessible anymore.
>
> Given that Google Code hosting will close in 5 months and thus the URLs
> will be broken anyway, I consider this change to be not very harmful at
> all.

It will be read-only, will it not? That was the purpose of the "deep
linking" talk, i thought. Old URLs (say, in a repository which will _not_
rewrite its history) will continue to point to the patches instead of being
broken.

> Furthermore, nobody should use the Google repository anymore from now
> on, it is outdated with the next patches.

Er, right, except for old URLs referencing those patches, originating from
sources that cannot be updated.

Justin M. Keyes

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