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Re: Import manually versioned files

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:32:32 +0100

On 21.12.2016 09:46, Stefan Hett wrote:
> On 12/20/2016 10:54 PM, Tim Erickson wrote:
>>
>> We are installing Subversion on one of our servers for the first
>> time. We have been manually versioning files via a simple directory
>> structure by keeping a version/date directory under the source. This
>> is where we keep old source code. When importing the repository for
>> the first time, is there a way to import all the old source with the
>> current source in a way that it will look like Subversion was
>> actually doing the versioning all along?
>>
>>
> Shouldn't be much work to write a custom script copying over the files
> from your older folders successively over the new files and do
> according svn add/del/ci calls for each version.
> I'm not aware of an existing tool/script doing precisely what you need,

This is the closest I know of:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn_load_dirs/

> but it should not be more than a few hours workto write one, I guess.

... and a couple days to debug it :)

-- Brane
Received on 2016-12-21 12:32:36 CET

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