[python-committers] History lost in svn to hg conversion

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Apr 25 20:29:29 CEST 2011


On Apr 25, 2011, at 2:00 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

>> The history of datetime.py
>> is very helpful for understanding various design decisions implemented
>> in that module.
> 
> I would advise to document design decisions in source code comments or
> in a separate file. Having to dig in VCS logs, or read many tracker
> entries, is IMO too tedious.
> 


Great advice for the future, Antoine. Now can you help with the Hg issue?

I had understood that *all* history was going to be retained. Did I misremember or was I incorrectly advised?

regards
 Steve
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Steve Holden
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