From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755463Ab1KNRHD (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:07:03 -0500 Received: from waste.org ([173.11.57.241]:36992 "EHLO waste.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753298Ab1KNRHB (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:07:01 -0500 Subject: Re: Mercurial linux-kernel repository at kernel.org? From: Matt Mackall To: Joe Perches Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, warthog9@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1321039441.15412.3.camel@Joe-Laptop> References: <1320998367.16747.127.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> <1321013367.6676.13.camel@Joe-Laptop> <1321034791.5399.195.camel@calx> <1321039441.15412.3.camel@Joe-Laptop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:06:54 -0600 Message-ID: <1321290414.5399.295.camel@calx> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 11:24 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 12:06 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > [uncrossposting] > > > > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 04:09 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > > Prior to intrusion, a mercurial repository essentially > > > duplicating the Linus' git tree existed at: > > > http://www.kernel.com/hg/linux-2.6 > > > > > > I do not use it, but are there any plans to restore it? > > > > Not on kernel.org, certainly. > > > > I asked the kernel.org admins a while back to send me a copy of the SHA > > map file from my account I needed to continue the mirror elsewhere and > > HPA declined, making some handwaving towards "eventually letting people > > download tarballs of their old accounts". > > > > As far as I know, "eventually" hasn't happened yet. I guess it's time to > > fire up a new mirror from scratch. It'll be incompatible with old clones > > due to not having the above file and various minor changes in both git > > and hg in the 6 years the original mirror was running. I'll announce it > > when it's done - it'll probably take a while. > > No worries. I'm not an hg user. Ian Campbell sent a patch > to get_maintainer to use git log option --follow for a largish > file rename event in drivers/net/... and I was trying to get > the hg commands in get_maintainer to do the same. > > Any idea if tracking file renames in hg needs an additional > command line option and if so what it is? hg log --follow will follow the history across renames. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.