[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion (original) (raw)

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Sat Jul 30 00:09:05 CEST 2005


"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

Fernando Perez wrote:

For ipython, which recently went through cvs2svn, I found that moving over to a project/trunk structure was a few minutes worth of work. Since svn has moving commands, it was just a matter of making the extra project/ directory and moving things one level down the hierarchy. Even if cvs2svn doesn't quite create things the way you want them in the long run, svn is flexible enough that a few manual tweaks should be quite easy to perform. Doesn't this give issues as every file the starts out renamed? e.g. what if you want "revision 100 of project/trunk/foo", but, at revision 100, it really was trunk/project/foo?

To be honest, I don't really know the details, but it seems to work fine. A quick look at ipython:

planck[IPython]> svn update At revision 661.

planck[IPython]> svn diff -r 10 genutils.py | tail

Revision 10 was most certainly back in the early CVS days, and the wholesale renaming happened when I started using svn, which was around revision 600 or so. There may be other subtleties I'm missing, but so far I haven't experienced any problems.

Cheers,

f



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