From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 4 12:51:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B12106566C; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:51:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C768FC16; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 12:51:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m54CpgFV078103; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:51:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m54Cpgkl078102; Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:51:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:51:42 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Ulrich Spoerlein Message-ID: <20080604125142.GA72838@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20080603164503.GC1592@roadrunner.spoerlein.net> <20080603173707.GA70144@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <7ad7ddd90806032332n43946648rb12045afd8f35e18@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7ad7ddd90806032332n43946648rb12045afd8f35e18@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:51:42 -0500 (CDT) Cc: Brooks Davis , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subversion documentation for the FreeBSD project? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:51:33 -0000 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 08:32:53AM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:45:03PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: > >> - Did you fixup the CVS repo-copies into real SVN renames? > > No, this is effectively impossible as there is no history of repocopies > > in cvs. >=20 > This is not entirely true, the cvs@ archive details almost all CVS > repo copies. There are also lots of forced commits to denote repo > copies. Yes, it would have to be a manual process, where you gather > (old, new, revision) tuples for the time of the repo copy (and perhaps > the branch?) > This file could then augment the conversion process and handle the CVS > files more intelligently. >=20 > I'm not volunteering and am happy with what's been done anyway. I'm > just against the "this can never ever been fixed, because the > information is totally lost" attitude. Some of the information exists scattered across the archive, much of it probably does not since at one point committers had direct access to the repo and used it. The forced commit rule has been forgotten many times. A partial reconstruction might be possible if someone wanted to waste a few months of their life. -- Brooks --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFIRo/dXY6L6fI4GtQRAlatAJ0SgBCa2SRv7288tIai4xMt3ISjlACfaZhz 9dtQqgBQ+KciWy7CUmKills= =hznx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--