Just a quick update. I had a spare hour or so, so, I extended it to support tags. I'm still looking to see about branches.
Thanks, -B On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Brian Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I've not used svn in ages, but if the need/want arises I might take a > stab at it. :) > IMO, the easiest way to handle svn repos is to just require a certain > layout for the repository. I'm aware of another tool or two that do > that. And, if you're in possession of one of those "multiple project" > svn repos that have a layout like: /proj1/{trunk,tags,branches} > /proj2/{trunk,tags,branches}, I'd do an svndump (or is that svnadmin > dump?) and run it through a filter to get multiple dumps - one per > project. > > At the moment, the tool is pretty "dumb" it doesn't exactly use all > the metadata git gives it. In particularly, I want to play with a git > repo that uses the "notes" object type and see if I can convert those > to some sort of simplistic wiki page. The other feature that's next on > the list is handling branches and tags properly. There'll be a bit of > information lost unless fossil tags can contain comments (something > which, if possible, isn't documented that I can find). > I need to spend some more time with the git fast-import man page to > fully grok format that git fast-export gives me. > > I'd definitely be interested in hearing feedback from people about > improvements I could make (and/or bug fixes). > I've only tested this on very simple repositories (though, one of them > did have multiple root commits). > > -B > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Joshua Paine <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 06:51 +0200, Ron Aaron wrote: >>> Very cool! So... do you want to do something similar for subversion? >> >> I'm working on it, but I'd be thrilled if someone beat me to it! >> >> (SVN is challenging b/c it has no concept of branches or tags, just >> copies to arbitrary pseudo-file-tree locations.) >> >> -- >> Joshua Paine >> LetterBlock: Web applications built with joy >> http://letterblock.com/ >> 301-576-1920 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fossil-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users >> > _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
