Re: Choosing arbitrary locations for branches and tags

Jamma Tino Schwarze wrote:
> I'm preparing a rather complex cvs2svn migration. We designed our SVN
> repository layout to ease branching and merging - we want to have the
> anchestry of branches visible. Therefore, our repository will look like
> this (with c4u_tools being the actual project):
> [...]
> 
> Is there a way to move symbols to arbitrary locations within the SVN
> tree? I looked into SymbolTransforms but the branches_path seems to
> always be prepended to the symbol name... I'd like to avoid converting 
> first, then "svn move"ing around everything to keep my history nice and
> avoid tree conflicts during merge.

You can't do this with SymbolTransforms; you have to use StrategyRules
(ultimately, by setting symbol.base_path).  The easiest way is to use a
--symbol-hints file, as described in the documentation [1], or
equivalently a SymbolHintsFileRule if you are using the options-file
method of configuring your conversion.

You might also find it useful to have some of your directory framework
be added to Subversion when a project is first initialized (rather than
when the first branch in that part of the hierarchy is created).  This
can be done by using the initial_directories argument to
run_options.add_project() (you must use the options file method to get
this feature).

Michael

[1] http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/cvs2svn.html

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