Yeah, easy repository migration, moving and merging is something the SVN team could have done a little better.
I'm going to try to get the non-ASF stuff out before we migrate. Cheers, Clinton On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:53:04 -0500, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:32:20 -0700, Clinton Begin wrote: > > Cool. I have the tarball from SourceForge. I was planning on > > converting the repository from CVS to SVN and rearrange it as > > described. Can our ops guys merge two SVN repositories? Or is > > that a nightmare? Is it easier if I just leave it as CVS? > > I asked on the infrastructure list about merging and joining, and which way > would be the best to go, but didn't get a response. > > I had thought we could just give them both tarballs and let whoever does it > do the best they can. Once it was up, we could refactor it there. > > But, if we'd like to submit a more finished product to the ASF, we could ask > WUSH.NET if they could convert the CVS and merge it our existing SVN > repository. They did this for me with the Struts CVS, when we were deciding > whether to go with SVN or not. The response time has always been good, > generally over night. > > Or, if you want to convert and refactor it yourself, we could get the SVN > dump of that, and see if WUSH.NET can merge it into ours. > > We could then get the dump of the combined WUSH.NET SVN and hand that to the > infrastructure guys. > > > > Also, with regard to the 3rd party (non-ASF) DLLs (Hibernate etc.), > > are you physically deleting them from the repository (can you do > > that with SVN)? I was going to delete the ,v file from cvs > > entirely, so that the 3rd party jar files aren't even in history. > > It's not easy to remove any artifact from SVN. You can do it, but it's messy. > But if we are transferring a dump, I believe we might be able to excise the > folder in transit. (Beam me up, Scotty ... and can you remove the mole while > you are at it?) > > The key point is whether the ASF is distributing a *GPL binary with it's own > distribution. We haven't had an ASF distribution yet, so we are clear on that > point. > > > > > Cheers, > > Clinton > > -Ted. > >
