Re: [naviserver-devel] Changed my mind: switch to mercurial

[Stephen D. <sd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Andrew Piskorski <at...@pi...> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 05:48:11PM +0000, Stephen Deasey wrote:
>
>>   http://www.bitbucket.org/naviserver/naviserver/overview/
>
>> It's up to date for both branches of AOLserver, and naviserver with
>> the exception of Zoran's commit the other day (I'll update that
>> now).  It also models the fact that naviserver is a fork AOLserver
>> 4.0.10.
>
> I've yet to really use Mercurial at all, but that all sounds very
> cool.
>
> I take it that one way CVS to Mercurial importing is very robust by
> now?


It is. Here's the command I use:

$ hg convert -A ~/authors.map \
      --config convert.hg.usebranchnames=0 --config convert.hg.clonebranches=1 \
      ~/in/naviserver-HEAD ns-HEAD-hg

Where authors.map is a file which maps sf username like 'sdeasey' to
mercurial users like 'Stephen Deasey <sd...@gm...>', and the
branch stuff is saying I prefer to represent branches as separate
repos.


However, I have done a bunch of clean ups of the commit messages, some
squashing of commits which should have been one commit, or where a
followup commit fixed a typo or some other trivial mistake with a log
message of 'oops...'.

So the conversion is 'accurate', but better than the original :-)

Even if you're not interested in mercurial, you might want to browse
the aolserver repos here for this reason alone:

  http://www.bitbucket.org/aolserver/aolserver/overview/
  http://www.bitbucket.org/aolserver/aolserver-40x/overview/

For example, according to the AOLserver ChangeLog the last change was
made in June, and it's one of only two changes made this year:

  http://aolserver.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/aolserver/aolserver/ChangeLog?revision=1.386&view=markup

Browsing the mercurial shortlog on bitbucket you can see there's
actually been 9 changes by 4 different authors.

This would be useful for these guys:

  http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=2438982

to whom it looks, on the outside, like nothing's been touched in
either aolserver or naviserver for years...