On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 23:13, Matt Richards <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would think this should be possible, but I don't know that much about
> Mercurial myself. From a quick web search, I see Mercurial has a conversion
> extension, has this been investigated?
>

Yeah, Yuri and me are working on it. But it isn't working completely yet.

Greetings,
Lennard



>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Upayavira <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This is me, knowing nothing about Mercurial nor the Wave repo. But I
> > wonder if you could write a script that checks out the first revision
> > from Mercurial, and commits it to a local SVN repo. Then updates to the
> > next revision, and commits that. And so on, all the way through the
> > repo. In the end, you have an SVN repo ready to be imported. With a
> > local svn repo, you can 'fake' users, it doesn't worry about
> > authentication.
> >
> > Am I being naive here?
> >
> > Upayavira
> >
> > On Sunday, September 04, 2011 7:28 PM, "Yuri Z" <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >  I think that it is technically possible to make clean Hg->SVN
> migration
> > >  and
> > > it would be pity to give up the history. I ll try to investigate it
> some
> > > more for some more time. Let's postpone the decision for a while (2-3
> > > weeks).
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Michael MacFadden <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Honestly at this point, I would vote for just a clean check in.
>  While
> > we
> > > > can talk about he use of having the history in the SVN, the fact of
> the
> > > > matter is that I don't think it is really important enough to hold us
> > up.
> > > >  That fact alone has been the only reason why we haven't migrated the
> > source
> > > > in nearly 10 months.  The fact that no one on the project has spent
> the
> > time
> > > > over the last 10 months to figure out a solution says to me that it
> > really
> > > > is not that important.  The revision history will stay on Google code
> > for
> > > > historical reference if we need it.
> > > >
> > > > Imagine if we had just switched over at the beginning of the project.
> >  We
> > > > would then have 10 months of check in history in the SVN.  Most times
> > when
> > > > we need to look back at the revisions it's because something had
> > changed
> > > > recently.  If we had 10 months of history, I doubt we would be going
> > back to
> > > > the Google Code Hg very much at all.  I think the need for the Hg
> > history
> > > > will decrease rapidly over time once we actually make the move.
> > > >
> > > > I know it would be nice to have the history, but it seems to be the
> > road
> > > > block.  If we just bite the bullet and make the switch a few months
> > from now
> > > > I don't think it will be impacting us at all.
> > > >
> > > > ~Michael
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sep 4, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Yuri Z wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello
> > > > > Yes, you are stressing an important point. I don't think anyone on
> > the
> > > > Wave
> > > > > project would like cancellation of the podling. So, the only
> solution
> > > > would
> > > > > be just complete the migration and move the source code to the
> Apache
> > > > Infra,
> > > > > hopefully along with the Wiki.
> > > > > However, there are technical issues as well. I already contacted
> the
> > > > infra
> > > > > and the Apache SVN mail lists for assistance on the move from Hg to
> > SVN,
> > > > but
> > > > > it seems like there's no single easy to use tool to do it. There
> are
> > > > bunch
> > > > > of tools that can help, though, but that requires investigation. If
> > the
> > > > > infra would provide some tool that would enable automatical
> migration
> > > > from
> > > > > Hg to SVN - that would be really helpful.
> > > > > Yuri
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Christian Grobmeier <
> > [email protected]
> > > > >wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Hello,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Wave has entered incubation on 2010-12-01.
> > > > >> I think it is time to re-open the discussion on the source code
> move
> > > > >> from hg to svn again. The project is now 10 months in incubation
> and
> > > > >> the sources are still not the ASF. Without sources incubation
> makes
> > no
> > > > >> sense imho.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Can we sum up what exactly is going on and what are the blockers?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I know people are not keen working with SVN, but as long as there
> is
> > > > >> no GIT at the ASF, this is the only way to go. If this is a
> blocker,
> > > > >> we should discuss the cancelation of this podling. I think it is
> not
> > > > >> (or should not)
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Are there technical problems - then we should outline whats
> > expected.
> > > > >> Maybe infra can help
> > > > >>
> > > > >> CHeers
> > > > >>
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> --Matt
>

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