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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Harish Narayanan wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:41:42PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>>> There has been some discussion on the dolfin-dev mailing list over
>>> the past few days on moving the FEniCS development repositories to a
>>> hosted service. The discussion has arisen in part due to the burden
>>> involved in maintaining the fenics.org server. With this message, I
>>> would like to kick-off a discussion and solicit opinions on moving
>>> the FEniCS development repositories to a hosted service.
>>>
>>> We are already using a free hosted service (Launchpad) for bug
>>> tracking and feature planning for a number of FEniCS components and
>>> this has proved to be a success. The question which I wish to pose
>>> now is should we move all the FEniCS development repositories to a
>>> hosted service?
>>>
>>> In terms of hosted services, the two most attractive options are
>>> Launchpad (https://launchpad.net) and Bitbucket
>>> (http://bitbucket.org). Versions of the DOLFIN repository are
>>> presently available on both
>>>
>>>     https://code.launchpad.net/~fenics/dolfin/dev
>>>     http://bitbucket.org/dolfin/dolfin/
>> The bzr repository seems to contain only 4300 changeset, but the hg
>> repository contains around 7500. Does anyone know why?
> 
> I noticed this too. Could it be that bzr seems to have this notion of
> primary changesets and sub-changesets or something?

I think this is it. bzr is holding information re: how changesets are
merged in using this numbering convention.

> Notice all the foo.bar.baz versioning attached to an annotated file:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fenics/dolfin/dev/annotate/head%3A/site-packages/dolfin/variationalproblem.py
> 
> Compare this with (awkward to due to funny formatting):
> http://bitbucket.org/dolfin/dolfin/annotate/e8b4c1afa145/site-packages/dolfin/variationalproblem.py
> 
> Harish