[Adium-devl] Let's switch to a DVCS

[Zachary West]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:58, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adiumx.com> wrote:
> On 2009-04-15, at 07:45, Zachary West wrote:
>>
>> I guess Augie is our only hope (if we want to save 1.3—totally willing to
>> forsake it).
>
> What we could do is wait until we ship 1.3.4, and then jump to a 1.4-only hg
> repo. If we ever really need to release a 1.3.5, we could still use the
> Subversion repo to do it, at least until we permanently abandon the 1.3
> line.

We could continue to use svn for 1.3, entirely, but start using hg for 1.4 now.

>
> However, I still would like to have full history, and it's possible to do
> that with hg convert, so I'm not sure why we're abandoning history. Repo
> size, or what?

Yeah, if we don't worry about branches we should do the full history.
I thought we had issues with importing our full history? The size is
an important factor, but I don't imagine it would be outrageously big
(I'm betting the libpurple binaries will be a factor in this though).

> Also, what do we want to do about Trac? At least with full history, revision
> numbers will be in the ballpark if not exactly right. If we drop history
> before a certain point, then Trac is the only web-based way to access the
> old Subversion repo, but (AFAIK) that means we can't use it with the new
> Mercurial repo at the same time.

A good point, though we could run a second instance of trac just for
serving the old subversion information too.

Zac