Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 03:06:45PM -0500, Mark Phippard wrote: > He also has his reposurgeon tool that does not operate on dump files > but git fast-import streams: > > http://freecode.com/projects/reposurgeon > > Maybe should be looking at better ways to interact with that format so > we can ben

Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Alexey Neyman
Johan, I could add another use case: we are migrating our CVS repositories to Subversion with cvs2svn, and there was a lot of 3rd party code in CVS imported without vendor branches. On top of many of those imports, there are several years of commits. It would be nice to have a standard tool th

Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Phippard
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:32:02PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote: >> >> Having a way to do this with svnsync and svndumptool would already be >> very useful. It would at least give some assurance to svn admins that >> these things are 'repai

Re: Tools for rewriting history Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Daniel Shahaf wrote on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 21:26:02 +0200: > That is, devise a way to encode an editor drive in a file[1], No; that's exactly what a dumpfile is. Perhaps we need a --up-to-revision to svnsync for that to be useful, though. (My usual trick is 'svn mkdir db/revs/X/UP_TO_THIS' on t

Tools for rewriting history Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Stefan Sperling wrote on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 15:04:01 +0100: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:32:02PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > > > > Having a way to do this with svnsync and svndumptool would already be > > very useful. It would at least give some assurance to svn admins that > > these things

Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Daniel Shahaf
On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 3:04 PM, "Stefan Sperling" wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:32:02PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > > > > Having a way to do this with svnsync and svndumptool would already be > > very useful. It would at least give some assurance to svn admins that > > these thin

Re: [ANN] SubGit Early Access Program Build #789

2011-11-22 Thread Jesse Thompson
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[ANN] SubGit Early Access Program Build #789

2011-11-22 Thread Alexander Kitaev
Hello All, Let me introduce our new project: SubGit (http://subgit.com/). SubGit is a free tool for smooth migration from Subversion to Git. As well as from Git to Subversion. Without git-svn insanity. It works like this:  - Install SubGit into your repository on the server side - Let initial tran

Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:32:02PM +0100, Johan Corveleyn wrote: > > Having a way to do this with svnsync and svndumptool would already be > very useful. It would at least give some assurance to svn admins that > these things are 'repairable'. Being able to fix a live repository > would of course

Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 11/22/2011 02:26 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:23 AM, "Johan Corveleyn" > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm wondering if it would be feasible to (make it possible to) >> alter/add copyfrom information in an SVN repository. And if so, would >> this be a desirable feature

Re: [RFC] Altering copyfrom information in repository

2011-11-22 Thread Johan Corveleyn
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > On Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:23 AM, "Johan Corveleyn" > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm wondering if it would be feasible to (make it possible to) >> alter/add copyfrom information in an SVN repository. And if so, would >> this be a desirab