[Python-Dev] Mercurial conversion repositories

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:39:40 -0800
Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >
> > Your clone will contain the following branches:
> >
> >    $ hg branches
> >    default                    68026:f12ef116dd10
> >    3.2                        68025:cef92ee1a323
> >    2.7                        68010:8174d00d0797
> >    3.1                        67955:5be8b695ea86
> >    2.6                        67287:5e26a860eded
> >    2.5                        65464:e4ecac76e499
> >    trunk                      62750:800f6c92c3ed
> >    3.0                        60075:1d05144224fe
> >    2.4                        58552:df72cac1899e
> >    2.3                        45731:a3d9a9730743
> >    2.2                        40444:d55ddc8c8501
> >    2.1                        30171:06fcccf6eca8
> >    2.0                        18214:dc0dfc9565cd
> >
> > The branch "default" is the current py3k branch from SVN. The branch
> > "trunk" represents SVN trunk history until 2.7 was branched for
> > maintenance.
> >
> 
> Just to help justify it in my head, the trunk branch exists for the history
> and nothing more, right?

True.

> Could we actually close the branch so it isn't even visible by default
> to prevent confusing people?

Yes, we can. This can be done post-conversion, actually. Something like:

$ hg up trunk
$ hg ci --close-branch -m "Close trunk"

Regards

Antoine.