On Mar 26, 9:27 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:53 AM, William Stein wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Jason (or anybody),
>
> > Does anybody have a clue if it is possible to take a directory (e.g.,
> > devel/sage/) with an .hg repo directory
> > in it, and do the following:
>
> > (1) export everything in the .hg repo to something (perhaps a ton of
> > stuff) in plain text format,
> > (2) delete .hg
> > (3) do something that recovers the .hg directory from the output
> > of (1).
>
> > Note that just doing hg_sage.export([0..10000]), where say 10000 is
> > the tip, doesn't work, because
> > that looses all information about branching, etc., hence fails
> > completely.
>
> > If mercurial can't do the above, that is a _very_ serious problem for
> > the longterm viability of
> > Mercurial at least for Sage. So any ideas how to do the above?
>
> > The reason for doing (1) -- (3) is that it is possible to scan an .hg
> > directory with antivirus tools.
> > Thus something silly like "base64-encode a tarball of .hg" won't work.
>
> I think it should be possible to export a series of patches and a
> (python) script that would apply the patches in the right order,
> clone, and merge to get back the original repository. It might not be
> the most efficient however. I'll look into this more.
>
> Has anyone tried contacting the mercurial developers?
Nope, that doesn't work on the Sage repo. Exporting all 9028
changesets of 2.11.alpha1 took about 40 minutes, but on reimport to a
fresh repo failed around 1300 changesets. The problem is that export
of a merge on diffs against on parent. So if you resolve a merge
conflict in a merge changeset things go FUBAR.
That was with 0.9.5, but I haven't tried 1.0 yet.
> - Robert
Cheers,
Michael
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