Re: The nitty-gritty of migrating to SVN

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

Ross, thanks very much for your reply. :)

On 17/03/2006, at 11:36 PM, Ross Golder wrote:
> You must've missed the other announcement I made recently

Yes, I don't know why. I even searched messages on this list for  
anything relating to SVN, and only got the old stuff. :S

> - we've had to
> postpone the migration for now.
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2006-March/ 
> msg00025.html

Oh. Thanks.
> Sorry about the confusion.

Confusion I'm used to. ;)
> > I can't find the original info. page about this in the Gnome wiki,
> > searching by "CVS" or "SVN", so sorry if I'm asking questions about
> > things that have been answered somewhere else.
>
> http://live.gnome.org/Subversion

I searched the wiki for "SVN", which should have brought up that  
page, but had no results. :( I was specifically looking for that page.
> > In practice, I have a CVS working copy on my computer. What do I do?
> >
> > Do I need to checkout the whole working copy again, but this time
> > using SVN?
>
> Yes. Fresh checkout. At least, I don't know of any other way.

Ouch. LOTs of files. Over 250MB. I could possibly ignore the Gnome  
2.12 stuff now... it's all translated. <sigh> Whenever I try to miss  
things out, or purge them, to save space, I always end up missing  
something I need.
> > I've copied this mail to cvsmaster, who may have become svnmaster,
> > but is probably still answering to that address. ;)
>
> Both addresses currently work and direct requests to a request tracker
> queue for CVS/Subversion issues.

Good idea. ;)
> > Thankyou very much for any help with this. :)  I want to do it right.
>
> So do I. We're just waiting for the base packages (in particular,
> python) on the GNOME CVS server to be upgraded then we can continue.
> Unfortunately, we still don't know when this is likely to happen.
That's awkward. :S

I'll keep an eye on the wiki page, now I've bookmarked it  
emphatically... ;)

Thanks, Ross. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
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