History lost in svn conversion

Hans Meine meine at informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Tue Jul 14 10:47:41 CDT 2009


On Tuesday 14 July 2009 17:39:24 Neil Curzon wrote:
> Sorry if I wasn't clear. The conversion succeeds, but certain files lose
> their history (hg log --follow does not show their history to the
> beginning).
>
> In the converted repo, if I qimport the top 10 commits, qpop all, delete
> the commit that lost the history, qnew, apply the patch from svn diff -r
> 100:101, and explicity call hg mv -A old new for every moved file, and
> qrefresh, qfinish, history is still lost at this commit. Am I doing
> something wrong?

What exactly do you mean with "history is lost"?
(Are you aware of hg log --follow?)

HTH,
  Hans


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