Re: Mailing Lists

By the way, this has been done.

C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> How this about this: post-migration, I'll annotate README (the one in our
> top-level directory) with all this information, plus the final record of the
> revision offset caused by the load into the ASF repository. (And if I can
> dig up the relevant info, I'll do a post-facto documentation of the merge of
> the svn-logos/ repository data long ago, too.)
>
>
> Greg Stein wrote:
>> Awesome. Could you drop the text below into a file somewhere, for
>> future archeologists?
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 22:08, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>>> Karl Fogel wrote:
>>>> Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com> writes:
>>>>> I think that's what Michael did.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-2321?focusedCommentId=12776647&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#action_12776647
>>>> Fascinating. So he did. The history's a bit wonky around the time of
>>>> the switchover. For example, this was r2:
>>>>
>>>> http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn-complete?view=revision&revision=3657
>>>>
>>>> But http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn-complete?view=revision&revision=3656
>>>> is not quite the same as r1. No matter; it's still cool :-).
>>> The CVS repository had some trailing revisions which occurred after the
>>> switchover. Most of them were commits to www/ (which we manually mirrored
>>> based on our subversion commits to trunk/www/). A couple of them were
>>> things like system-wide automated tweaks to www/robots.txt made by CollabNet
>>> folk. Also, we had real tags and branches in our CVS repos that we didn't
>>> bring with us into Subversion. So what I did was this:
>>>
>>> 1. Converted all the CVS history to Subversion (into repos 'svn-from-cvs')
>>>
>>> 2. Dumped all the revisions from 'svn-from-cvs' up to the switchover time
>>> (r1:3654) -- *not* the extra/duplicate revs mentioned above -- and loaded
>>> them into a new repos, 'svn-complete'.
>>>
>>> 3. Committed the deletion of all our tags and branches, leaving the
>>> directories themselves, from 'svn-complete'.
>>>
>>> 4. Since r1 in the 'svn' repos was a massive import, that would have
>>> clashed mightily being loaded atop already-existing files and directories in
>>> 'svn-complete'. So I checked out svn-complete/trunk_at_HEAD, then exported
>>> svn/trunk_at_r1 atop it. The local mods were the small delta between what we
>>> got outta CVS on August 31, 2001, and what we put into Subversion. They
>>> were mostly the result of $Date$ keyword formatting differences. I
>>> committed those local mods, which now brought 'svn-complete' in sync with
>>> 'svn_at_r1' *except* that 'svn-complete' still had empty tags and branches
>>> directories (whereas we didn't create those in the 'svn' repository until
>>> later when we needed them).
>>>
>>> 5. Dumped -r2:531 of 'svn', loading into 'svn-complete'.
>>>
>>> 6. Made r532 from 'svn' a no-op in 'svn-complete', since that was the
>>> revision in which we created the tags/ directory.[1]
>>>
>>> 5. Dumped -r533:1236 of 'svn', loading into 'svn-complete'.
>>>
>>> 7. Made r1237 from 'svn' a no-op in 'svn-complete', since that was the
>>> revision in which we created the branches/ directory.[2]
>>>
>>> 8. And then dumped the rest of 'svn', loading into 'svn-complete'.
>>>
>>> I'm actually pretty happy with the stitchwork.
>>>
>>> -- C-Mike
>>>
>>> [1] http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn-complete?view=revision&revision=4187
>>> [2] http://svn.collab.net/viewvc/svn-complete?view=revision&revision=4892
>>>
>>> --
>>> C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
>>> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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