Re: Subversion documentation for the FreeBSD project?

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:51:42 -0500
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:32:53AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:45:03PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> >> - Did you fixup the CVS repo-copies into real SVN renames?
> > No, this is effectively impossible as there is no history of repocopies
> > in cvs.
> 
> This is not entirely true, the cvs_at_ archive details almost all CVS
> repo copies. There are also lots of forced commits to denote repo
> copies. Yes, it would have to be a manual process, where you gather
> (old, new, revision) tuples for the time of the repo copy (and perhaps
> the branch?)
> This file could then augment the conversion process and handle the CVS
> files more intelligently.
> 
> I'm not volunteering and am happy with what's been done anyway. I'm
> just against the "this can never ever been fixed, because the
> information is totally lost" attitude.

Some of the information exists scattered across the archive, much of it
probably does not since at one point committers had direct access to the
repo and used it.  The forced commit rule has been forgotten many times.
A partial reconstruction might be possible if someone wanted to waste a
few months of their life.

-- Brooks

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