1265493 - Create Mercurial Firefox repository with CVS history

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Services :: Mercurial: hg.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/experimental/gecko-dev/ now exists and partially satisfies the request in the bug summary.

But, this repo is a bit hacky:

* Not updating automatically
* File copies/moves possibly not recorded properly
* Suffers all the limitations of the gecko-dev Git repo (bad author fields, incorrect CVS commit detection, etc)

I'm filing this bug so people have a place to record their experiences with this repo.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Used this today for some pretty old (2002) all.js bits blame.  Worked fine, including I think across moves...

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #0)
> * Suffers all the limitations of the gecko-dev Git repo (bad author fields,
> incorrect CVS commit detection, etc)

Do we not have a good mapfile for converting CVS authors to usernames? There aren't an unbounded number of them.

Comment 3

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sffmUZPs0gPqTnZ1ZHTcaAPGGOc_nq30SK6yNqUR_-A/edit#gid=110505252 is such a map. It was created after I did this conversion. Kudos to dbaron for filling out most of it. If others from the Netscape era would like to fill in the gaps, it would be appreciated.

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/experimental/mozilla-central-cvs now exists. The conversion was a bit hacky. I didn't incorporate the author map or rename detection for example. But it is updating automatically and is slightly better than the previous gecko-dev repo in that regard.

Comment 5

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox includes this history, AFAIK.