From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:13:42 GMT
Subject: Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707160212260.7851@beast.quantumfyre.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90707151808u67c4e834lb06ed86c855f58ec@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Martin Langhoff wrote:

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

I don't know if it classes as what you call good, but it is documented:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/notes/fs_dumprestore.txt

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

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