Re: [Savannah-help-public] Converting gnuspeech to svn

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

It should be ok to load several dumpfiles, as far as I'm concerned.

However, I remember reading that this caused issues when searching
revisions by date, because SVN does a binary search in revisions
_assuming they are ordered by date_.

Maybe this has been fixed since then, but you may want to check with
the SVN mailing list first :)

-- 
Sylvain


On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:49:04PM -0600, Dalmazio Brisinda wrote:
> Hello Sylvain,
>
> I've finished converting the gnuspeech CVS repository to SVN dumpfiles  
> via the cvs2svn software. I would just like to confirm if it's okay to  
> use multiple dumpfiles  for loading the SVN repository?
>
> Here's some background.
>
> First, I've restructured the repository slightly so that we have 5  
> dumpfiles. I've edited the dumpfiles slightly (and carefully) so that it 
> should be as painless as possible for savannah using the standard  
> 'svnadmin load' command without any special switches (the parent  
> directories: osx, gnustep, nextstep, docs, and misc are created and  
> added within the dumpfiles).
>
> I've set up the dumpfiles so that the top-level structure will look like 
> this:
>
> /
>       osx/
>               trunk/
>               branches/
>               tags/
>       gnustep/
>               trunk/
>               branches/
>               tags/
>       nextstep/
>               trunk/
>               branches/
>               tags/
>       docs/
>               trunk/
>               branches/
>               tags/
>       misc/
>               trunk/
>               branches/
>               tags/
>
> I'm assuming savannah will be loading the dumpfiles into the new  
> repository something along the following lines (depending on where the  
> actual path to the new SVN gnuspeech repository is located):
>
> $ svnadmin load /sources/gnuspeech < gnuspeech-osx-dumpfile
> $ svnadmin load /sources/gnuspeech < gnuspeech-gnustep-dumpfile
> $ svnadmin load /sources/gnuspeech < gnuspeech-nextstep-dumpfile
> $ svnadmin load /sources/gnuspeech < gnuspeech-docs-dumpfile
> $ svnadmin load /sources/gnuspeech < gnuspeech-misc-dumpfile
>
> Let me know If this is correct and all is well.  If so, I can upload the 
> 5 dumpfiles to https://savannah.gnu.org/register/upload.php and we can 
> begin the change-over.
>
> Best,
> dalmazio
>
>
>
> On 26-Nov-08, at 6:25 PM, David Hill wrote:
>
>> Hi Dalmazio,
>>
>> FYI
>>
>> Warm regards.
>>
>> david
>> --------
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
>>> Date: November 26, 2008 1:55:46 PM PST (CA)
>>> To: David Hill <address@hidden>
>>> Cc: address@hidden
>>> Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] Converting gnuspeech to svn
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 05:37:29PM -0800, David Hill wrote:
>>>> Is there a protocol for savannah hackers to convert a project CVS
>>>> repository to SVN within the savannah site, or do I check out the  
>>>> whole
>>>> project and create the SVN dump file myself and submit it for/ 
>>>> request
>>>> savannah hackers to install it (presumably in the project  
>>>> development
>>>> tools section of the project page).  Can the CVS repository then be
>>>> removed?
>>>>
>>>> There seems to be some ambiguity in the material I have been  
>>>> reading but
>>>> that is likely my fault :-$
>>>
>>> You need to convert it yourself and send us a dump, indeed :)
>>>
>>> https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/CvSToSvN
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Sylvain