Converting HUGE (12GB) SVN repo to Hg

Philip Pemberton lists at philpem.me.uk
Thu Apr 22 08:10:56 CDT 2010


Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 15:04, Philip Pemberton <lists at philpem.me.uk> wrote:
>> *googles*
>>
>> *bangs head on desk*
>>
>> "Updated from SVN every 30 minutes"... although it doesn't appear to carry
>> any of the branches or tags from SVN. Or at least not the release-ID tags,
>> which makes it about as much good as a chocolate teaspoon.
> 
> For those of us following along, what did you find? :)

http://gcc.gnu.org/hg/gcc

In short:
   Yes there's a repository
   Yes it's updated from SVN fairly regularly
   No it doesn't contain any branches
   No it doesn't contain any useful tags (they're all of the form 
svnrev12345).

So for what I want to do (effectively: hg bisect GCC_4_4_0 GCC_4_5_0) 
it's useless.

-- 
Phil.
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