Re: Revision/History Graph - DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph)

On Tue, 01 May 2012 12:31:58 +0000, Stanimir Stamenkov wrote:
...
> Andreas Krey suggested nice approach in his reply - convert the SVN
> repository to Git, then use that to display the history. I haven't
> tried the SVN to Git conversion -- this is basically the only thing
> I haven't tried yet, but I've tried SVN to Mercurial using various
> tools available for the task, and in my experience this conversion
> is far from perfect, especially with "weird" repositories.

It necessarily is. Tools that map an svn repo into a DVCS one have
to deal with the fact that the latter 'only' have one global branch/merge
history while in svn potentially every file can have a completely
different DAG (and even reversed vertices).

Andreas

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800