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Re: Import manually versioned files

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2016_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:10:55 -0600

> On Dec 21, 2016, at 05:32, Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:
>
> 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/

That was the script I was going to suggest using as well. Treat your old manually-versioned code as a vendor branch. See the chapter in the svnbook on vendor branches, and previous discussion in the mailing list archives.
Received on 2016-12-21 19:11:23 CET

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