I think updating the trunk branch is a good idea. I just gave you commit
rights and I did hide the source tab from the project.


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> When we moved from SVN at code.google.com to Git at gwt.googlesource.com,
> I wanted to keep the SVN repo alive because there are many links to source
> files from blogs or sites like StackOverflow (I'm responsible for many of
> them).
>
> In the last few days however, I've seen many people linking to code in the
> SVN repo's trunk rather than the Git repo's master.
>
> I think this partly comes from the fact that the SVN repo is still linked
> to from https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/ “To browse the GWT
> source code, visit the 'Source
> <http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/source>' tab.”
> I've asked several time that this link be fixed but it's still not been
> done. It should link to
> https://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/Source?tm=4 instead
> (what the Sources tab actually links to)
>
> I'd also like to replace all files in the SVN trunk (not tags or release
> branches, only trunk) with dummy content pointing to gwt.googlesource.com.
> Something like:
>
> Source code for the GWT project has moved to https://gwt.googlesource.com
>
> The file you're looking for can be now found at
> https://gwt.googlesource.com/gwt/+/master/path/fo/file.java if it's not
> been deleted or renamed since then.
>
>
> Specifically, I don't want to just delete the "trunk" *branch* from the
> SVN as that would break too many links. The "redirect" somehow "breaks"
> navigation (and particularly linking to a specific line in the file), but
> at least it's better than a plain 404.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Note: because I don't have commit rights to the SVN (maybe we could open
> that now that we no longer sync' from the Google repo?), I'll do a script
> that replaces the content for all the files in trunk, along with setting
> the mime type to text/plain, for someone else to run. Either that, or
> someone gives me the commit rights, after reviewing the script.
>
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