[brailleblaster] Re: Moving liblouis from Subversion to Mercurial
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:11:04 -0500
Michael,
I've been wondering why you were so quiet.
I think the best way to create a Mercurial repository for liblouis would
be to set up a new googlecode page with a slightly different name, say
hgliblouis The recent googlecods pages have features that the old ones
don't. After the repository was set up, I could get a clone of the empty
repository. I have already created a directory of the liblouis project,
minus the svn hidden directories. After doing the clone I would just add
this directory, comit and push. We would lose history, of course, but I
won't wory about that unless people convince me that it will make a
difference. Of course, we would then have to link the new page to the
old one in some way.
John
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:38:51PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Personally I would be for that change to mercurial. For your interest,
> there are tools which can create mercurial repositories from an SVN
> repository so you do not loose history in the move. Refer to the
> mercurial website for details on some of them. If you want I could
> probably do this for you.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 06/09/11 17:47, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Right now I can't commit to the liblouis svn repository. The reason is
> >stillunder investigation. Both liblouisutdml and BrailleBlaster are on
> >Mercurial repositories. I have come to like Mercurial better than
> >Subversion. The move would not be difficult, and the commands are quite
> >similar. Getting a working copy is simpler, using the clone command.
> >
> >What do you think?
> >
> >John
> >
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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