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Last week we moved psycopg from Subversion to Bazaar. I did the migration using Gustavo Niemeyer’s svn2bzr tool with a few tweaks to map the old Subversion committer IDs to the email address form conventionally used by Bazaar.
The tool does a good job of following tree copies and create related Bazaar branches. It doesn’t have any special handling for stuff in the tags/ directory (it produces new branches, as it does for other tree copies). To get real Bazaar tags, I wrote a simple post-processing script to calculate the heads of all the branches in a tags/ directory and set them as tags in another branch (provided those revisions occur in its ancestry). This worked pretty well except for a few revisions synthesised by a previous cvs2svn migration. As these tags were from pretty old psycopg 1 releases I don’t know how much it matters.
As there is no code browsing set up on initd.org yet, I set up mirrors of the 2.0.x and 1.x branches on Launchpad to do this:
It is pretty cool having access to the entire revision history locally, and should make it easier to maintain full credit for contributions from non-core developers.
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