From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:30:17 GMT
Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git
Message-ID: <873azpqgnq.fsf@red-bean.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90707151808u67c4e834lb06ed86c855f58ec@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:
> 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