On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:14:01PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > 2010/9/28 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <virik...@gmail.com> > > > Hello, > > > > we are going to try to switch from svn into fossil. > > > > As we could not find any tool ready to import svn history (even a single > > branch) > > into fossil, I think that we are going to keep the svn history in its svn > > repository, and we will start fossil from a last agreed point in the svn > > history. > > > > Do you think that we will be able, at a later time, to add the 'past' > > history > > into our fossil repository, once someone writes a tool to import from svn? > > Using some kind of deconstruct/reconstruct, with the needed modifications > > and > > checksums and hash recalculations. > > > > That would work. To make an import tool for pre-history should really be no > more difficult than making a generic import tool. That is what I thought.
> > Except for one problem: When you start your new Fossil repository, you'll > have an initial version, call is "A". When you later import the pre-history > from SVN, version A will not be linked to its parent in SVN. In other > words, there will be a gap between the last SVN version and the first Fossil > version. But I'm thinking that will be just a minor hiccup. And it is > within the realm of possibility that we could enhance Fossil to allow you to > fix that gap; the Fossil file format would support such a thing - it has > just not been implemented yet. I think maybe someone will come up with a way to overcome that. Great. Then I don't mind waiting for a proper import tool or whatever fossil functionality, and I better start using fossil as soon as possible. Thank you, Lluís. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
