pushkeys used? https://www.selenic.com/blog/?p=644

Pierre-Yves David pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org
Tue Nov 12 18:22:29 UTC 2019



On 11/9/19 10:05 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>>>> "PD" == Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david at ens-lyon.org> writes:
> 
>     > which feature are you talking about ? If you are asking about
>     > `pushkey` it is an internal implementation details used during
>     > push/pull.
> 
> Well the starting point is the question what to do with my bitbucket
> repository. I have partially moved them to helix, which is ok, but I
> loose the meta data like issues.


I you are looking for a place migrate from bitbucket I recomment you 
look into the currently recommend option here: 
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MercurialHosting/#Comparison_table_with_Mercurial-specific_features

> I have also tried out to convert my mercurial repositories in bitbucket
> to git repositories with the hg-plugin, but again my meta data are not
> converted.
> 
> There are some git based tool, which seem to convert even the meta data
> https://github.com/glandium/git-cinnabar
> 
> But it has the following restriction as stated in their documentation
> There is no support for the following mercurial features:
> 
>      obsolescence markers
>      phases
>      namespaces
> 
> When I asked the author what he mean about namespaces, he sent me link
> about pushkeys.

namespaces is not a feature, it is an implementation details of pushkey 
to list the supported pushkey namespace.

-- 
Pierre-Yves David



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