Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git
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Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
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- Jul 16, 2007, 01:30 UTC
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"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
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> On 7/15/07, Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >> > 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.
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/dump-load-format.txt
Best, -Karl