Hi Jean-Marc
> On 10/04/07, John Walker <ronnystalker@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have just been introduced to the whole concept of revision control
> > after 5 years of developping a website without it. I'm thinking, "i
> > wish i had this 5 years ago". So, I'm trying to 'fake' a Subversion
> > history using my old backup folders. I have a collection of copies of
> > my website documents which are instances of my site saved in folders
> > like "MySite_copy_2001_03_1", "MySite_copy_2004_11_05",
> > "MySite_copy_2007_02_28" etc. I have played around with a test
> > repository by, say, pasting the contents of MySite_copy_2001_03_1
> > into a folder in my working directory call "MySite", then committing
> > that. Then deleting all files in that directory and pasting in files
> > from MySite_copy_2007_02_28, and soon.
>
> In principle the approach is fine, however I would try to restrict the
> deletion of files to only those that are actually deleted in the newer
> version of the site.
> Once you have SVN-deleted the files that are no longer present in the
> newer version, just copy the entire backup folder tree on top of the
> working copy. SVN will then automatically detect which files were
> modified.
> Regards,
> Jean-Marc
Thanks for the speedy repsonse and for the useful tips. However, I
dread the prospect of "SVNdeleting files that are no longer present in
the newerversions" manually. I have hundreds of files in my earliest
backups and thousands of files in the later ones. To make things
worse, although, each file's path structure is consistant, some backup
instances did not include all the sections of the site, i.e. some have
"just those under htdocs" and others just have "those under my cgi
bin" etc. I think i will just get started from what i have currently
and maintain versions from now on.
It would be a nice feature, though, to have some command that can,
say, point to a folder that contains an alphabetically ordered
sequence of back up folders and be told to "import/generate/load a
revision history from it" into a specified folder in the working
directory. I'm thinking like how you can point to a folder with
Macromedia Firework's "Open file dialogue", and if you tick the box
"Open as animation", it will open a numerically named sequence of gifs
as a single animation. I'm new to this, but i'm now fully sold on the
spirit of Subversion and Open Source, so (once i learn to code beyond
a PHP webpage) I'll plan to make it my first contribution to the
project, if not already scripted. In fact i should mention that i've
always felt a bit of an outsider to the Open Source community cos i
had no idea how to plug myself in. Now learning about Subversion has
really opened the doors and i'm itching to get involved. So thanks
everyone.
My ideal command is something like:
svn importsequence MySequenceOfTrees [ASC|DESC]
file:///usr/local/svn/newrepos/some/project/putcontentofsequencedfolderunderhere
\ -m "initial import n"
The actual names of the backup folders is not important as long as
they maintain a sequence and contain similarly structured paths
within.
Then svn goes through the process of what Jean-Marc suggested, except
with less effort by the human, me! :o)
Waddya think?
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Received on Tue Apr 10 09:30:12 2007