--- On Thu, 7/28/11, Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote:
> On 07/28/2011 04:32 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > > > > --- On Thu, 7/28/11, Christian Lohmaier wrote: > > ... > >> > >> [1] Note that with the map, it would also be > >> possible to reuse the old OOo-Subversion repo > >> for the linear commits, after all the hg repo > >> repo was a conversion from the server. > >> This would save quite a bit of time. > >> > > > > I like this idea ... if the old SVN server is > > still available and we can do a progressive > > conversion of the rest of the Hg > > stuff we will save a lot of metadata that had > > previously been lost (plus we save conversion > > time). > > It's still available: http://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo > resp. svn://svn.services.openoffice.org/ooo > Very, very nice.. it even has some old branches, perhaps those can be updated progressively too at a later time! FWIW, it's running Subversion 1.5.4. There are also some extra tools: "The CWS tooling has been reworked to adapt to SVN.". > You can use svnsync to create a local copy of the rep. Will > take a while :-) > Ugh... I don't have the space locally to do even this :(, but it certainly looks like we can save a lot of stuff (and time) from there. > > > > I suspect the original CVS stuff that was lost in SVN > > conversion is gone for good by now. > > Oh, I'm pretty sure that it's still available somewhere. > There have been some CVSup mirrors of the stuff. > > But, frankly, I can't see the need of having the CVS stuff > at hand. It's very hard to make sense of this historical > data anyway, at least if you haven't got a decade of OOo > developer knowledge under the belt. > Yes, I think the SVN conversion already has what could be recovered easily, I doubt a newer conversion tool can add much to it. Thanks for the link. I hope we end up going this way! Pedro.
