Comments on: hgsubversion – dropping old history during conversion (mod) http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/11/24/hgsubversion-dropping-old-history-during-conversion-mod/ Man bites Ogre Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: marmoute http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/11/24/hgsubversion-dropping-old-history-during-conversion-mod/comment-page-1/#comment-311150 marmoute Mon, 18 Apr 2011 14:21:22 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=2418#comment-311150 Mercurial core developper have recently included a "light weight copy" feature that doesn't recopy file content on rename/copy. The feature will be shipped with the next release and should improve storage efficiency for later OGRE refactoring. Mercurial core developper have recently included a “light weight copy” feature that doesn’t recopy file content on rename/copy.

The feature will be shipped with the next release and should improve storage efficiency for later OGRE refactoring.

]]> By: Steve http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/11/24/hgsubversion-dropping-old-history-during-conversion-mod/comment-page-1/#comment-280947 Steve Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:32:56 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=2418#comment-280947 You're welcome! I don't know if they adapted my patch or re-implemented it from scratch, I know my version wasn't 100% reliable for all situations but I only had time to made it work well enough for us. Glad to hear they have a more general version available now! You’re welcome!

I don’t know if they adapted my patch or re-implemented it from scratch, I know my version wasn’t 100% reliable for all situations but I only had time to made it work well enough for us. Glad to hear they have a more general version available now!

]]> By: codekoala http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/11/24/hgsubversion-dropping-old-history-during-conversion-mod/comment-page-1/#comment-280946 codekoala Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:28:25 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=2418#comment-280946 Thanks for this! I have been trying to learn how to reduce our company repo down from 10GB by discarding ancient history (we have a lot of big binary files). Turns out the current hgsubversion (a8d5eec1326b) is capable of cloning a *single directory* SVN repo (or just your trunk directory, for example) and discarding old revisions. Just run ``hg help clone`` after installing the hgsubversion extension. There's an option: "--startrev VALUE convert Subversion revisions starting at the one specified, either an integer revision or HEAD; HEAD causes only the latest revision to be pulled" Seems to be working fine for me thus far! Thanks for this! I have been trying to learn how to reduce our company repo down from 10GB by discarding ancient history (we have a lot of big binary files). Turns out the current hgsubversion (a8d5eec1326b) is capable of cloning a *single directory* SVN repo (or just your trunk directory, for example) and discarding old revisions.

Just run “hg help clone“ after installing the hgsubversion extension. There’s an option: “–startrev VALUE convert Subversion revisions starting at the one specified, either an integer revision or HEAD; HEAD causes only the latest revision to be pulled”

Seems to be working fine for me thus far!

]]> By: Steve http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/11/24/hgsubversion-dropping-old-history-during-conversion-mod/comment-page-1/#comment-262503 Steve Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:04:49 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=2418#comment-262503 A word of warning, we discovered a couple of weird errors in a couple of files since conversion, I have to figure out why. Seems like one of the deltas got applied in an incorrect way somehow; since this didn't happen when I converted the whole repository I assume it's related to my skipto implementation, I'm just struggling to see why right now (the messed up delta was about 7 revisions after the skipto starting point - if anything I'd expect it to be a problem on the first revision after the forced starting point). A word of warning, we discovered a couple of weird errors in a couple of files since conversion, I have to figure out why. Seems like one of the deltas got applied in an incorrect way somehow; since this didn’t happen when I converted the whole repository I assume it’s related to my skipto implementation, I’m just struggling to see why right now (the messed up delta was about 7 revisions after the skipto starting point – if anything I’d expect it to be a problem on the first revision after the forced starting point).

]]> By: Stodge http://www.stevestreeting.com/2009/11/24/hgsubversion-dropping-old-history-during-conversion-mod/comment-page-1/#comment-262470 Stodge Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:37:34 +0000 http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=2418#comment-262470 Thanks - this is something I'm looking into too. Wonder if Mercurial will ever let you clone only part of a repository - say a specific branch. Thanks – this is something I’m looking into too. Wonder if Mercurial will ever let you clone only part of a repository – say a specific branch.

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