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Re: Migrating to SVN from zipfile-based archival. Advice?

From: Lieven Govaerts <svnlgo_at_mobsol.be>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:24:16 +0200

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>> Is the SVN server smart enough to realize that, even if I follow this
>> course of action, that
>>
>> /trunk/foo/bar.c
>> /tags/release1/foo/bar.c
>> /tags/release2/foo/bar.c
>>
>> are all the same file with minor (if any) differences?
>
> If you do this you are going to get several copies.
>
> What I would do is create a trunk and import the oldest ZIP that you have. Then get a check out of trunk and copy your next version over it. Do and "add" and "commit" then tag it. Continue.
>
> Actually, there is a utility that is designed to import ZIPs that are different versions. Although now that everything is at apache.org I don't know where to find all the little utilties that used to be on tigris.org... and they don't seem to be at tigris.org either.
>

All files from svn.collab.net have been copied to svn.apache.org.
You're probably talking about svn_load_dirs.pl, which is the tool that
the documentation refers to in the 'vendor drop' chapter. You can find
it here:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn_load_dirs/

hth,

Lieven
Received on 2010-06-11 00:25:13 CEST

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