Worry over bug 883 (repo size increase on rename)

[Arne Babenhauserheide]

Am Mittwoch 11 März 2009 18:07:49 schrieb Greg Ward:
> Hi all --
>
> I'm trying to devise a better workflow to drag my company kicking and
> screaming away from CVS to something -- anything -- better.
> Personally, I am strongly biased in favour of Mercurial (otherwise, I
> would hardly be hanging out on this list).  The trouble is that we
> need to do some serious reorganizing of our source tree at the same
> time -- probably a common problem when you stick with CVS for way too
> long.  I can see two ways of doing the migration:
>
>   1) make a copy of our CVS repository, move things around there,
> strip tags, etc. and then feed that to "hg convert"
>
>   2) feed the existing repository to "hg convert" and then go on a
> frenzy of "hg rename"

A third option is to split the repository into smaller subrepositories and 
then just move these. 

That way you keep par of the renames outside of revision control (if you just 
want to put some project dir into another top level dir, you can simply turn 
the project dir its own repo instead of having a monster-repo which contains 
all projects). 

Is that an option for you? 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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