On Jul 27, 2011, at 9:41 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 21:23, Dennis E. Hamilton > <[email protected]> wrote: >> TBD = To Be Determined/Defined >> >> There was extensive discussion with Greg Stein and Marcus (and others) in >> previous weeks on this list. Greg's last post was July 9, as previously >> noted. There has been further work/discussion by Mathias Bauer, Michael >> Stahl, Marcus Lange, Eike Rathke, and others. > > Yup. Sorry about being away. The Apache Subversion project created its > 1.7.x stabilization branch for our upcoming 1.7 release. This has been > two years in the making, so it has been a Big Deal. I haven't had the > time to properly dedicate here.
Sounds exciting. "svn patch" is part of of subversion 1.7, correct? When will svn.apache.org be 1.7? Carl Marcum and I are working on svn instructions for the project and if 1.7 is happening very soon, I think it would be great if we could include svn 1.7 type instructions. > > I've read some of the threads, and will need to cut this short (at > OSCON right now). In short, I saw a concern about how to handle the > two-parent merges. That was also becoming a concern of mine, but > hadn't quite reached the "geez. I dunno" stage. > > With these various conversion issues, I might be coming around to just > saying "not really possible with the current set of tools today". I'll > talk to a friend of mine to see if they have something that can help > (his company does a lot of version control work, and they may have > ideas/tooling). > > In the meantime, and I can dig in more this weekend once I get home, > I'll suggest one possible road for us: > > 1) import just the OOO340 tip into svn +1 > 2) move all the Hg repositories over to apache-extras.org. That > supports Hg and it supports "any OSI license". We can indefinitely > retain history there without it being "part of" our ASF project. +1 - a great idea. > > While it means that we won't have history in svn, it does mean that > we'll have full history available to us. And in its natural Hg state. > > ... more later, but I just wanted to get that thought out there. Regards, Dave > > Thanks, > -g
