Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Steps for the SVN migration

On Jul 26, 2008, at 5:01 PM, Lars Strojny wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Am Samstag, den 26.07.2008, 15:24 -0700 schrieb shire:
> [...]
>> While I think we shouldn't limit our freedom too much here (I like
>> the idea of thinking outside the box), structures like the above will
>> cause a lot of grief if we ever want to move to another revision
>> control system that won't recognize the above setup correctly.  It'll
>> also make a lot of headaches for developers wanting to import into
>> decentralized systems like git etc (just verified this won't work
>> with the current git-svn, unless someone knows a way to do this
>> easily).
>
>

Right, but I don't think it supports the multiple subdirectory  
structure that was proposed.  ie: --stdlayout specifies these paths  
as /branches and /tags and the --branches and --tags let you set  
these to some other path, but I don't believe you can specify  
multiple branch and tag paths, nor will it follow subdirectories  
correctly as it can't logically determine the correct structure.  ie:  
"--branches=branches/private --branches=branches/releases" would  
result in one overwriting the previous, let me know if I'm missing  
something but I assume this would cause problems for other import  
tools as well.

This could of course be fixed by adding more complicated  
configurations to the import/conversion tools, this should be taken  
into consideration with the benefits we get from this more  
complicated directory structure.

-shire