Re: vcs-svn and friends

From: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2011, 21:13 UTC
Message-ID: <3435337.18574.1316121232672.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110915204815.GA31508@elie>

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> From: "Jonathan Nieder" <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:48:15 PM
> Subject: Re: vcs-svn and friends
>
> Stephen Bash wrote:
> 
> > For those of us interested but out of the loop, does this mean you
> > have a working example where I can point it at a SVN repo and see
> > what happens? Having done our SVN to Git conversion last year, I
> > know our repo has a lot of the common SVN screw cases (non-branching
> > copies, partial merges, mis-merges, *lots* of retagging, changes
> > committed to tags, etc.) so if it's relatively easy to setup a test
> > I'm happy to run one.
> 
> Thanks. It's very bare-bones at the moment: it just imports each
> revision as a whole tree, with no branch and merge tracking at all.
> So it would be very interesting to get this basic stuff out into the
> wild and then add some code implementing those things for you to break
> on top of it.

Okay, that matches my last known state of the project, guess I just got optimistic ;)

Since last summer I've been meaning to take a crack at svn-filter-root.py, but it keeps sliding off the priority list.  If you guys don't beat me to it, maybe I'll eventually get around to it...

Thanks, Stephen