Conversion to SVN

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 12:36:27 -0700, David Romano wrote:
> On 10/07/2011 07:13, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> > 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.
> I'm a new kid on the block but I'm curious why git is being overlooked 
> for the new repository. Just because it's a distributed VCS doesn't mean 

Others already mentioned why our focus is on SVN for now. But as the
one, that is doing these conversions to github, I can assure you that
the doc repo will show up there as soon as it has been converted to SVN.

Cheers,
Uli