hg with infrequent code drops
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Mon Dec 31 21:09:49 UTC 2007
On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 22:18 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2007-12-31 12:05, Dustin Sallings <dustin at spy.net> wrote:
> >On Dec 31, 2007, at 7:56, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> >> This is, by the way, a brief description of the way I am using
> >> Mercurial to speed up work with CVS, Perforce and Subversion
> >> repositories at work, and I've been doing it for more than a year
> >> now. It might be useful to you too.
> >
> > I came up with roughly the same flow with perforce. It sounds
> > complicated, but is rather natural.
> >
> > The only difference is that I wasn't actually using snapshots, but
> > replicating a tree from the upstream SCM so as to have a complete
> > history.
>
> The truth is that I did a full Perforce 'replication' script myself too.
> Sometimes, having the entire Perforce history, including any renames
> detected by "addremove --similarity 100.0", is a very valuable thing.
Perhaps you'd like to try adapting your Perforce code to the convert
extension?
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