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Re: Changing svn:date?

From: Michael Wood <mwood_at_its.uct.ac.za>
Date: 2003-08-21 18:24:59 CEST

On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:40:13PM -0500, james-tigris@jrv.org wrote:
> I'm trying to write a program to import from old PVCS files into SVN
> and retain the authorship and timestamps.
>
> I'm wondering if doing a propset of svn:date is going to really do
> what I want, which is to allow me to retrieve an entire project as of
> a particular date. The files are being committed one by one, revision
> by revision from the original PVCS archives
>
> The trace below shows part of the conversion cycle happening. Next is
> a failed attempt to retrieve a revision by date, and lastly a log
> showing that the propsets did do something.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing if there are better strategies for
> converting from an existing VCS to SVN retaining timestamps.
[snip]

A better strategy might be "don't reinvent the wheel unnecessarily" :)

I believe VCP supports converting from PVCS to something else. clkao
has been working on supporting Subversion as a target for VCP.

I seem to have been promoting VCP quite a bit lately, which is a little
strange, since I've never used it. Might be worth a look.

-- 
Michael Wood <mwood@its.uct.ac.za>
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