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

[Augie Fackler]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Peter Hosey 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.

+1, converting a single branch probably means you can just use hg  
convert on trunk only and call it good.

> 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?

Repo size. In my experience, cvs2svn'ed repositories are already less  
than ideal when converted to svn, and then the subsequent conversion  
to hg makes it worse.

Also, I'm not really sure why you'd want history going back to the bad- 
old-days of Adium 1.x. In any case, we can try it both ways and see  
how beefy the repo is.

> 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.

I guess, but I'm not sure I care all that deeply.

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