recode text files in repo

[Victor Sudakov]

Marcin Kasperski wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Does anybody know how to configure "hg convert" to put all text files
> >> > through "iconv -f KOI8-R -t UTF8" ?
> >> 
> >> Hmm, wouldn't evolve help (giving track of obsolete2current commits
> >> mapping as a bonus)?
> >
> > If possible, first I would like to try out some means without touching/modifying the history.
> 
> By definition you are modifying history. You are taking most of your
> changesets and editing their contents (and even those which happened
> later, are rebased).

I humbly disagree. I'm not editing the contents, I'm just changing the
encoding. The text remains the same.

> 
> In fact the final effect of hg convert with patches, and of evolve,
> should be similar (the difference: after evolve your old commits will be
> in your local repo, just marked as obsolete, after convert yuou will
> have new unrelated repo with unrelated history)

As long as the text remains the same, and changesets and commit messages
remain the same, I'm fine with that.

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