Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Mercurial linux-kernel repository at kernel.org? | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:24:01 -0800 |
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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?
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