David Kastrup wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as far as I can tell, the basic advice for importing a vendor branch
> snapshot into a Subversion repository is to first get an export of the
> branch, then import it into one's own repository (actually, the
> Subversion documentation does not appear to assume that the vendor
> actually uses Subversion for a software package).
>
> So far so good: I don't want the version info and history from
> upstream here.
>
> However, I _do_ want the directory metadata, which files are binary,
> which files are text, which have which mime-type, which files are
> ignored and so on. But I don't want keyword expansion (_if_ upstream
> uses any keyword magic, it is important that the keywords remain as
> they were exported from upstream).
>
> So how do people do that?
>
I don't know if there's one tool that does specifically what you want,
but I would check out Piston:
http://piston.rubyforge.org/
Regards,
Blair
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Received on Wed Jun 6 18:12:01 2007