[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>>BTW, in one of your replies I read that you had a problem with
>>how cvs2svn handles trunk, branches and tags. In reality, this
>>is no problem at all, since Subversion is very good at handling
>>moves within the repository: you can easily change the repository
>>layout after the import to whatevery layout you see fit - without
>>losing any of the version history.
> 
> 
> Yes, however, I recall that some clients have problems with displaying
> history across renames (in particular, I believe viewcvs has this
> problem); also, it becomes difficult to refer to an old version by
> path name, since the old versions had all different path names.

Since I only use trac to view the source code (which doesn't
have this problem), I can't comment on this.

> Jim Fulton has suggested a different approach: cvs2svn can create
> a dump file, and svnadmin load accepts a parent directory. Then,
> no renames are necessary.

Good idea.

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