As long as you're creating a true dump via "svnadmin dump", it can be loaded with "svnadmin load", thus preserving the history. This will not force the revision number to start over at 0. Revisions will continue to be able to be compared to previous revisions, etc...
I'm not sure how it's handled here to migrate it, but as long as whoever migrates it can use "svnadmin load" there should be nothing to worry about. - Doug -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:55 AM To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache Flex source code - timeline for the initial code contribution Hi Bertrand, It looks like we can get an svn dump. Some questions though: 1) Some of our svn history contains references to revisions as in: "syncing rev 12345 to trunk" or "reverting 12345". My understanding is that these revision numbers will no longer reference anything useful once the dump is imported. How have other projects managed such a thing? 2) Similarly, our JIRA bugs reference svn revisions as in "fixed in rev 12345". How have other project managed this? Thanks, -Alex On 1/4/12 9:06 AM, "Bertrand Delacretaz" <bdelacre...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Carol Frampton <cfram...@adobe.com> wrote: >> ...We're looking into preserving the history. We're not sure yet >> whether or not it is feasible for us to do it. If not maybe we can >> put the repository we pulled from up somewhere on adobe opensource >> site so the history is still available... > > If you can get an svn dump from the existing Flex repository that > should work, we can ask the ASF infrastructure team to import it. > > I'd then suggest the following process: > > -Create the svn dump from the Adobe repository -Put it somewhere with > a public URL for download (as it's probably too big to attach to a > JIRA issue) -Submit the software grant from Adobe [1], which includes > the md5 digest of the dump file -Once the grant is confirmed, create a > JIRA issue for the ASF infra team to import the dump > > -Bertrand > > [1] http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt -- Alex Harui Flex SDK Team Adobe Systems, Inc. http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui
