Re: Subversion on container

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:49 +0700, Ross Golder wrote:
> เมื่อ จ. 2006-02-06 เวลา 10:00 -0200, Johan Dahlin เขียนว่า:
> > > Any other questions, queries, concerns or comments, let's hear them now
> > > and get them sorted. If anyone thinks I should start making
> > > noise/announcements on other lists (e.g. foundation-list, i18n, docs
> > > etc), please let me know. If nobody brings up any showstopper issues by
> > > next weekend, I'll propose a cut-off date to the board, CC
> > > foundation-list, and await some kind of official sign that it's all OK
> > > to go ahead.
> > 
> > The layout of the gnome-python subdirectory is unfortunate.
> > The subdirectories are treated by us as separate modules but the convert 
> > script treats them as all other modules, eg directories.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to special case the gnome-python module so we can have 
> > gnome-python/pygtk/trunk, gnome-python/pyorbit/trunk instead of
> > gnome-python/trunk/... ?
> > 
> > If it's too much work, just move all modules to the toplevel directory, 
> > since we're breaking all scripts already we can break them a bit further :)
> > 
> 
> >From what I can see, it would require hacking 'cvs2svn' to achieve the
> 'gnome-python/(submodule)/[trunk|branches|tags]' effect, and would
> result in a module that doesn't conform to the normal layout of a
> subversion repo (where [trunk|branches|tags] are the root folders).
> 
> So, I will plan to move these modules up to the toplevel before the
> migration, so they each have a 'repository' of their own afterwards.
> Obviously, doing the 'mv' in /cvs/gnome will break any existing CVS
> checkouts at that time.

If branching is only possible at the top-level then you'll need to do
this for gnomemm too. You'd want to rename gnomemm/website to
gnomemm_website.

> > I think this applies to a few other modules. I can't remember any of them 
> > right now, but if you look at the module aliases in CVSROOT/ it should give 
> > you an
> > idea.
> > 
> 
> Sure. I'm figuring that the maintainers of such modules will need to
> read about 'svn:externals', as per my other reply to James a few moments
> ago:
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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> Ross
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