From kde-core-devel Thu Feb 17 12:57:58 2005 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 12:57:58 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Subversion problems Message-Id: <20050217125758.GB9421 () ugly ! local> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=110864508201479 On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:10:19AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote: > [svn-migration] > ok, i bring this up everytime somebody says svn, but nobody ever answered, so ... ;) how do we proceed about migrating our cvs "moves"? 1) just import the shit from cvs literally. this is simple, but creates "ghost files" in old checkouts; most of them don't even compile for this reason. 2) clean out "moved" stuff. same with that variant: we lose the ability to make coherent checkouts of old versions. it's pretty much work to find all "moved" stuff. on the bright side, the repo is waaaay smaller than with 1). 3) make cvs2svn find and import "moves". implementing this is cvs2svn issue #1. i think if somebody (let's call him coolo ;) motivated and fluent in python created a patch, the entire cvs2svn community (which is unfortunately very volatile by nature) would welcome it very much. given the number of "moves" in our repo this is definitely worth consideration. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done.