[Supertux-Devel] Merge branches/supertux-milestone2-grumbel/ back to trunk/

[Nathan Phillip Brink]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 02:16:25PM -0800, Tim Goya wrote:
> Something to think about: switch to git so the whole branch-then-merge
> process is simply how it works.
Or mercurial :-). Googlecode, suggested in grumble's TODO, supports that. I've just run the simple ``hg convert http://supertux.lethargik.org/svn/supertux'' command and it's been going for a few days... :-/ progress can be seen at http://ohnopub.net/hg/supertux-hg

The only problem is that, since each checkout is an entire copy of the repository, it will take a while to freshly clone the most recent revision if all of the past history is kept. At the last-converted revision, r6686, the size of the mercurial repository (without files being checked out) is already 335M. I'm guessing this is mostly due to the contents of data/. I'm assuming that git will have similar problems though it may be more efficient than mercurial. Thus, if the data was separated or past history was ignored an a fresh import of the last SVN revision was made---I don't know what would make sense.