mercurial --> plain text --> mercurial

didier deshommes dfdeshom at gmail.com
Thu Mar 27 10:00:01 CDT 2008


Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek <at> Sun.COM> writes:

> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) uses hg for its source control and recently a
> > question has come up about the possibility of doing the following:
> > 
> >  (1) export everything in the .hg repo to something (perhaps a ton of
> > stuff) in plain text format,
> >  (2) delete .hg/ directory
> >  (3) do something that recovers the .hg/ directory from the output of (1).
> > 
> > Is this possible? Suggestions very welcome.
> 
> tar ? Maybe you could explain your motivation.
> 

Thanks for the reply. The concern is that someone could sneak a virus or
malignant code in the in the .hg/ directory (or anywhere else) that would
damage/alter part of the meta-data in the repo.

How would you use tar to do the above?

didier






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