Ryan Schmidt wrote on Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 19:51:17 -0500:
> I’ve been developing a new feature of a public project in secret, in
> my own private Subversion repository. It’s almost entirely new code in
> a new directory. There’s only one file that’s based on an existing
> file, and it’s been heavily rewritten.
>
You might be interested in reading on how Mike Pilato prefixed a few
thousand revisions to an existing repository:
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/README
You might be able to do something similar by dumping your repository,
tweaking the paths, and using 'svnrdump load'. (Not sure how that
handles svn:date --- whether it tries to set them, and what to; in your
case you'd want it to let the server set it to the current time, as it
does for ordinary commits.)
Compared to git-svn, each approach has its pros and cons. For example,
git-svn doesn't support property changes, but svnrdump doesn't give you
a local preview.
Daniel
> There will come a time when I will want to publish this new code to
> the project’s public Subversion repository. At that time, I could
> export the code from my private repository and import it to the public
> one, but this would lose my history. Is there a way to preserve the
> history — replay the revisions in order somehow? Other developers of
> this public project seem to be doing so, but I believe they are making
> their modifications locally in git clones of the public Subversion
> repository, and then using git-svn to later commit the revisions to
> the public Subversion repository. I have not used git-svn and am not
> comfortable using git which is why I did not attempt this method.
>
> My private repository is not an svnsync’d copy of the public
> repository; it’s just an empty repository with my code in it. I don’t
> have administrative access to the public repository so I cannot
> “svnadmin load” anything, nor would I want to import the revisions
> verbatim: for example, I would not want the original commit date and
> commit author to be preserved; the commit date should be the date when
> I publish to the public repository, and the author should be my id in
> the public repository, as with any other of my commits.
>
Received on 2014-04-01 09:43:28 CEST