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Comment on Branches – Subversion Conversion to Mercurial, Part 2 by Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 28 May 2010 22:26:56 +0000

Hmm, so I played with this a bunch today and finally realized that hg convert doesn’t find branches that have been svn deleted (as the svn book recommends you do when you are done with a feature branch). My dreams of getting our whole svn history into mercurial are dying.

Manually creating a splicemap entry for each merge was looking to be a pretty tedious chore. When convert doesn’t even know about one of the revisions you specified because it’s on a branch that got deleted, it gets even harder.

Maybe I missed something though?

Comment on Branches – Subversion Conversion to Mercurial, Part 2 by Rock

Rock — Fri, 28 May 2010 01:24:35 +0000

Thanks, Bryan. Good to hear from you. I guess old habits die hard – I still have tacos on every birthday.

Comment on Branches – Subversion Conversion to Mercurial, Part 2 by Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:03:36 +0000

Thanks for writing this! I need to convert a subversion repo to mercurial at work and this pretty much answered all the questions I had about the process.

Also, congrats on the new job at Fog Creek! I still remember hanging out at your house when we were about 8 years old, your cool computer with the compact cassette tape drive, and eating tacos at your birthday party. Good times.

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Comment on Mercurial will make you a better developer by Rock

Rock — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:54:49 +0000

Bravo, John. I hope I am as magnanimous when making a self-correction. Also, with your follow up I would say you’ve found nuance. And as a former Microsoftie, I wouldn’t be sad to see your prediction about Ballmer come true.

Comment on Mercurial will make you a better developer by John DeRosa

John DeRosa — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:54:45 +0000

Great article. Your criticism of my developer-isolation argument is correct, and I’ve admitted so in my blog: http://seeknuance.com/2010/03/06/mercurial-vs-subversion-take-2/.

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Mercurial vs. Subversion, take 2 « Seek Nuance — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:49:46 +0000

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Seek Nuance — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:42:05 +0000

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Comment on How To Care by Rock

Rock — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:58:52 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Rob. Here’s to a change that sticks!

Comment on How To Care by Rob Meyer

Rob Meyer — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:19:05 +0000

Hey Rock,

I just wanted to write to say that I’ve enjoyed reading your blog posts and am especially excited now that you have committed publicly to writing more often. You have motivated me to make some personal improvements and, even after a month, they are still sticking.

Hope all is well with your new job and your family is enjoying the east coast.

Cheers,
Rob