Conversion to SVN

Ulrich Spörlein uqs at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 7 14:13:14 UTC 2011


Hi,

it looks like I'm not the only one thinking about moving the doc/www
repos from CVS to SVN, and other people actually have not only thought
about it but already played around with conversions.

gavin did some preliminary conversions and it turns out that we end up
with ~50k revisions and about 650MB of changes (IIRC). There are also
lots of weird branches, so perhaps we could size that down a bit.

What I, personally, would like to see is us using the same svn repo as
src. That means we would have to stop svn.freebsd.org for the
conversion, turn off email sending, dump 50k revisions into it (under
/doc and /www perhaps? where should branches/tags end up?), then turn
everything back on.

I haven't really thought that through to the end, but setting up a
separate svn repo just seems silly to me and is another administrative
overhead. ports might be special enough (due to sheer size) to justify a
separate repo/machine, but not doc/www.

Please discuss and share your experiments and thoughts.

Cheers,
Uli



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