On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Robert Bradshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've looked into this some more and it looks like we can completely > reconstruct a repository from the export of all its keywords. The > trick is to use the --exact keyword when importing. This forces it to > apply the given patch to the correct parent (sometimes creating a new > head) and will also correctly import merge patches (removing heads). > Some scripts to do this are up at > > http://sage.math.washington.edu/home/robertwb/hg/ > > I've successfully exported and re-created simple repositories (with > branching) with these scripts, and it works great and preserves all > the history. The only issue is that I can't seem to get it to work > with any repositories older than a certain date. I think the issue is > that mercurial changed the way nodeid's are calculated (and I keep > getting an error "abort: patch is damaged or loses information" which > is thrown when the newly computed nodeid does not match the one in > the patch (command.py:1632 in 0.9.5)). Matt Mackall, any suggestions > on how to cleanly get around this/get the old node-id numbers instead
Robert, Did you ever get a response to this question? Any updates on this? William -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
