Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2007, 01:08 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90707151808u67c4e834lb06ed86c855f58ec@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <469A099E.6060906@alum.mit.edu>

On 7/15/07, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

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> > It took a day and half to get the svn dump parsing right (it's an
> > egregiously bad format) but only a couple of hours to write the
> > fast-import backend.
>
> I'm surprised you think that; I find the svn dump format quite easy and
> straightforward.  (Of course it assumes some Subversionisms, like easy
> deep directory copies, which I can imagine would be annoying in other
> contexts.)  What don't you like about the format?

Is there good doco and samples for it? I wouldn't mind doing things by way of an SVN dump parser.

> Yes, fast-import is a very easy-to-write format and looks to be very
> well documented.  I don't think that having to write output in
> fast-import format would be any kind of a hindrance for such a tool.

Damn! You've now figured out that all my volunteering was for the easy part of the job ;-)