On 7 February 2015 at 15:14, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 1:00 AM, jungle Boogie <jungleboog...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Baruch,
>> On 7 February 2015 at 13:29, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Run `fossil help import` for details.
>> > Basically:
>> > % fossil import svn /path/to/repo /path/to/dump
>>
>> % fossil help import
>> Usage: fossil import FORMAT ?OPTIONS? NEW-REPOSITORY ?INPUT-FILE?
>>
>> So I'm doing 'fossil import svn mgsrepo.fossil ~/bin/repo/repo.dump'
>>
>> % fossil version
>> This is fossil version 1.31 [1be2eb0535] 2015-02-06 15:38:51 UTC
>>
>> % fossil all ls
>> ~/fossilbuild/trunk
>> ~/fossil-repos/fossil.fossil
>> ~/fossil-repos/sqlite.fossil
>> ~/naes/fossilbuild/trunk
>>
>> % fossil import svn mgsrepo.fossil ~/bin/repo/repo.dump
>> Importing SVN revision: 467 <--I don't think this is correct as its a
>> 3.8GB dump file
>> Copy from path outside the import paths <---What's this mean? Is it
>> expected?
>
>
> Moving this to the mailing list.
>
> In order to not choke on large imports (unless absolutely needed), only
> changes to the trunk, branches and tags directories are tracked. Any change
> to another directory in the SVN tree is discarded as "not interesting",
> since it will not get imported into the final repo. However, this also means
> that if at a later point the dump file tries to move/copy such a file into
> one of the above three directories, we don't have the source to make the
> copy from. This was done to minimize the amount of "temporary" data that is
> used and later discarded by the import process, since keeping it can
> potentially amount to a huge amount of unneeded data. However,in some cases
> it is needed, such as this one. I don't know the correct solution here.
>
>>


I will try using this repo:
https://code.google.com/p/spiped/source/checkout as its publicly
available and much smaller than the one I was attempting to use.

Is it not odd that NO fossil repo was created? Was my syntax
incorrect? Would there be any error logging somewhere else?

Thanks,
jungle

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