Re: Subversion use for Kernel work

Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> wrote:
> Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> writes:
> > There's been some discussion of switching from Perforce to Subversion on
> > the perl5-porters list. It's just idle chat for now, but Andreas Koenig
> > did build some tools recently that can create a Subversion repository of
> > the Perl source based on the changes reported by Perforce.
>
> Is there any way we can get those converters into our tools/ directory?

This is not a generic perforce to svn converter, but it can be used as
a basis for a generic one. As input, it takes patches generated by another
tool written by Andreas. It has also special knowledge about how the
perforce repository for the prel sources is organized.

For the details, see the doc :

http://search.cpan.org/author/ANDK/Perl-Repository-APC-1.059/scripts/perlpatch2svn

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Received on Thu Feb 27 17:39:44 2003