Re: CVS -> SVN -> Git

On 7/15/07, Michael Haggerty [off-list ref] wrote:

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It took a day and half to get the svn dump parsing right (it's an
egregiously bad format) but only a couple of hours to write the
fast-import backend.

I'm surprised you think that; I find the svn dump format quite easy and
straightforward.  (Of course it assumes some Subversionisms, like easy
deep directory copies, which I can imagine would be annoying in other
contexts.)  What don't you like about the format?

Is there good doco and samples for it? I wouldn't mind doing things by
way of an SVN dump parser.

Yes, fast-import is a very easy-to-write format and looks to be very
well documented.  I don't think that having to write output in
fast-import format would be any kind of a hindrance for such a tool.

Damn! You've now figured out that all my volunteering was for the easy
part of the job ;-)




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