On Jun 5, 2008, at 23:44, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> The following issue just came up on a large CVS repository which was
> converted to svn. We're also trying out version 1.5.0, because we
> really like the new merge capabilities.
>
> The --cvs-revnums option will:
> Record CVS revision numbers as file properties in the Subversion
> repository. (Note that unless it is removed explicitly, the
> last CVS revision number will remain associated with the file
> even after the file is changed within Subversion.)
>
> Thus, if you have a project with multiple branches, then the same
> filename may have different values for cvs2svn:cvs-rev in different
> branches. If we then go to merge changes in from one branch to a
> different branch, we get into a bunch of merge-conflicts.
>
> I think we're just going to fix our repository to remove all of those
> cvs2svn:cvs-rev properties, because that property isn't really as
> useful as we initially thought it might be. But it seems to me that
> this may be an issue which will hit a number of other people as they
> start using 1.5 and the merge features.
>
> It seems to me that this might be an example of a "general" problem
> and might be worth a "general solution" at the subversion level. I'll
> admit I have no idea what that should be, or even if there is any good
> way to address it.
>
> I guess the problem is that 'cvs2svn' is putting a *revision*-specific
> value as a *file* property, and there just isn't any good (painless)
> solution once that has been done across an entire repository. Maybe
> the most that can be done is to put a bigger warning around the
> --cvs-revnums (both in the 'man' page, and in the command itself).
If you're asking how to batch-remove file properties from historical
revisions, you may be interested in svndumptool.
http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/
It has a "transform-prop" function which can transform file
properties. Not sure if it has a built-in ability to delete file
properties, but if not, that could probably be added without too much
trouble.
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Received on 2008-06-06 06:52:37 CEST