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Re: Some tips for doing a CVS importer

From
Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Nov 21, 2006, 06:43 UTC
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<20061121064328.GB3332@spearce.org>
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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eventually the Moz crowd will outgrow SVN - perhaps we should be
> parsing the SVN dump format instead ;-)
Its a mess.  :)

Jon and I considered using the SVN dump format to feed git-fastimport but chose against it. Its a pretty horrible format. Especially with how it handles branches and tags, and file data.

Fortunately SVN has a C library which parses the file for you. Which means that probably the best way to read the SVN dump format is to write a program which links against the SVN library and translates it into the datastructures used internally by git-fastimport to generate an initial pack file, then repack that after the import to get good compression.

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  1. Jon SmirlNov 20, 2006
  2. Martin LanghoffNov 20, 2006
  3. Jon SmirlNov 20, 2006
  4. Martin LanghoffNov 21, 2006
  5. Carl WorthNov 21, 2006
  6. Jon SmirlNov 21, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  8. lamikrNov 21, 2006
  9. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  10. Robin RosenbergNov 23, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceNov 25, 2006
  12. Petr BaudisNov 21, 2006
  13. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  14. Johannes SchindelinNov 21, 2006
  15. Johannes SixtNov 23, 2006
  16. Martin LanghoffNov 21, 2006
  17. Jon SmirlNov 21, 2006
  18. Marko MacekNov 26, 2006
  19. Jon SmirlNov 26, 2006
  20. Marko MacekNov 26, 2006
  21. Jon SmirlNov 26, 2006
  22. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceNov 21, 2006
  24. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  25. Markus SchiltknechtNov 27, 2006
  26. Michael HaggertyNov 27, 2006
  27. Markus SchiltknechtNov 28, 2006
  28. Michael HaggertyNov 30, 2006
  29. Daniel JacobowitzNov 30, 2006
  30. Jon SmirlNov 27, 2006

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