Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>
- Cc: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>, GNOME Desktop <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:58:26 +0200
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:39 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> I think one of 2 things:
> 1. Because /cvs/gnome was a repos, and /svn is not. E.g., under CVS, you
> couldn't (IIRC) create something under /cvs, but you could under SVN.
> 2. CVS was smart enough to create the repos
>
> If you check svn help import you see:
> import: Commit an unversioned file or tree into the repository.
>
> "into the repository" ... it isn't smart enough to create the repos
>
> e.g., see the error message:
> svn: No repository found in 'svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/foobar'
>
>
> This is why I proposed testingground.. if that would exist, you could
> create a repos there. However, later on, you want to move that into a
> real repos. IMO that might be nice on short term, not on long term
> (needs to be a real repos, dump&load work, etc).
Does this work though? I mean, if testingground is a single module, is
it really possible to extract the version history for a single
subdirectory and create a new svn module from that?
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