in what format to you want the user id/mail/name ? I don't think cross-ref is a big issue, so if cross-ref doesn't work don't spend to much time on it...
as for splitting strategy, you didn't mention separating the ressource branch wich would be the primary target I would have considered, but maybe it was implicit... On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Eric S. Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm now attempting to mirror the Subversion repository for Wesnoth. > Here's hoping it doesn't fill up the disk before it's done. > > There is one prerequisite I will need for conversion; that is a > map file associating Subversion committer IDs with full names > and email addresses. > > We have some decisions to make about the conversion. The main ones > are: > > (a) How to treat Subversion revision references in commit comments. > > (b) How to split up the repository > > Our choices for (a) are either: > > Conservative: Leave references unaltered. Decorate each commit > comment with its fossil Subversion ID so we know where the targets > are. > > VCS-independent: Turn each reference into an action stamp (that is, an > RFC3339 date followed by ! followed by committer ID). Massage the > extracted bugtracker state so commit references in that also turn into > that form. > > I favor the VCS-independent option. It's a little more work up front, > but won't put a burden on future migrations or leavve > Subversion-dependent clutter in our comment history. > > As for how to split up the repository, I'm going to start by trying > to make an an unsplit version. If that's more than a gig, I think the > targets for being split out are, in this order: > > 1. Translations > 2. Audio > 3. Graphics. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a> > > "Are we to understand," asked the judge, "that you hold your own interests > above the interests of the public?" > > "I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of > cannibals." > -- Ayn Rand > > _______________________________________________ > Wesnoth-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
