More SVN->HG questions

[Hans Meine]

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 21:28:49 Greg Ward wrote:
> In your case, it's "pull" rather than "merge", because you're using
> separate repos rather than named branches within one repo.  But at a
> conceptual level, it's all the same.

Wouldn't you still need to merge after pull?

> One way to think about is this: the graph of changesets in the repo
> for release n+1 should be a superset of the graph for release n.  Of
> course that's a pie-in-the-sky ideal that won't happen in real life,
> but it never hurts to strive for an ideal.

Why won't it happen in real life?  AFAICS, this might only become wrong when 
you change history (i.e. strip/mq/histedit/...), which you would typically 
only do with non-shared changesets.

Greetings,
  Hans