Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:31:07 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net> To: David Romano <unobe@cpan.org> Cc: doceng@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conversion to SVN Message-ID: <20111012203107.GK26743@acme.spoerlein.net> In-Reply-To: <4E8F54BB.4000206@cpan.org> References: <20111007141312.GJ26743@acme.spoerlein.net> <4E8F54BB.4000206@cpan.org>
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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
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