Migrating Reaction repo to Mercurial

[Sergey Schetinin]

I can't say I'm a big fan of DVCS but they sure have their benefits.
Most of them were negated for me by the fact it would take some time
until I become comfortable using DVCS and I did not intend to spend
any time training myself without a good reason -- I don't hate
Subversion like some people apparently do.

Recently WebOb migrated from Subversion to Mercurial and as I'm one of
the contributors I had to acquaint myself with that. Now that I'm used
to the system I think I might migrate Reaction repo to hg (I guess
PasteOb as well). I would use bitbucket hosting which would also clear
the licensing issue: Google Code doesn't allow PSF / ZPL licensing and
that's what Trellis used. I would just use MIT if I had the choice, I
don't get why PJE seems to be against that.

Any reactions to this?
Please don't ask about bzr or git -- I don't have a preference, it's
just that I am used to Mercurial by now.

PS. By the way, I wonder how much Trellis code remains in Reaction? If
we don't count the tests, I'd guess at about 40%.

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Best Regards,
Sergey Schetinin

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[Andrew Svetlov]

Sounds good for me.

[Алексей С.]

What is Reaction?

2010/1/19 Andrew Svetlov <andrew....@gmail.com>:

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[Sergey Schetinin]

http://code.google.com/p/trellis-fork/
http://groups.google.com/group/better-python/topics?hl=en

2010/1/19 Алексей С. <phli...@gmail.com>:

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[Алексей С.]

thanks, see detail

2010/1/19 Sergey Schetinin <mal...@gmail.com>:

[Sergey Schetinin]

BTW, it seems that SVN repo is full of CRLF <-> LF conversions and
back which makes changesets big and unreadable, but I've spent a lot
of time already trying to fix it, and it seems that's too hard to do.
So I'll just let it be.

2010/1/18 Sergey Schetinin <mal...@gmail.com>:

[Sergey Schetinin]

Alright.. 'hg convert' fails to handle renames and treats it like a copy.
I've had enough, migration canceled.

2010/1/19 Sergey Schetinin <mal...@gmail.com>:

[Sergey Schetinin]

Ta-da! http://bitbucket.org/mlk/reaction/overview/

I had another go at it, this time after quite some work and even
hacking the conversion process itself I got it to convert properly.
* Trellis revision history is included
* all commits are correctly attributed
* there are no huge changesets that are just CRLF <-> LF conversions
(this took a while to fix)
* the renames are not tracked, I didn't manage to fix that as well --
there are a couple issues about this and I've spent enough time on
this conversion already. If someone manages to reconvert the repo
autoguessing the renames, I'll gladly use that.

[Sergey Schetinin]

I've recreated the repo with renames autodected. If you've cloned the
repo before I recreated it, please restart from scratch.