Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Mercurial linux-kernel repository at kernel.org? | From | Matt Mackall <> | Date | Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:06:54 -0600 |
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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 <some-file> will follow the history across renames.
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