Re: Mercurial linux-kernel repository at kernel.org?

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

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?