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Re: switching from CVS to Mercurial


From: Shai Ayal
Subject: Re: switching from CVS to Mercurial
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 06:32:45 +0200

On Feb 6, 2008 12:17 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've decided to go with Mercurial.
>
> I'm almost ready to switch to using it exclusively for managing the
> Octave sources, but before I do that, I thought I'd announce the
> change, let people check out the archive, and ask for comments on a
> few more things.
>
> First, I converted the CVS trunk and release-3-0-0-branch to
> Mercurial.  A read-only version of the my archive is publicly
> accessible here:
>
>   http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>
> You can clone the repository with the command:
>
>   hg clone http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>
> The repository itself is approximately 47MB  That includes all the
> main trunk history from the beginning of time (around August of 1993;
> I have no idea why I wasn't at least using RCS before that).  I think
> the size is reasonable given that the unpacked sources are about
> 31MB.  It's small compared to the full CVS archive (i.e., all the RCS
> files on the server), which occupies around 95MB.
>
> I did not include old inactive branches in the new Mercurial archive.  I
> don't really think this is necessary since all these branches are
> dead.  They could be added later if someone comes up with a good
> reason to add them.
>
> You can find out more about Mercurial here:
>
>   http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/
>
> Comments?

Shall we remain with the same policy for commit message as in CVS? i.e
no commit message is necessary but Changelog is essential? It actually
makes more sense in hg than CVS since the Changelog diff is available
as part of the changeset

Sha


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