From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 20:31:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA5F8106566C; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:31:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) Received: from acme.spoerlein.net (acme.spoerlein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:131:23c2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67EA88FC0A; Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (acme.spoerlein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:131:23c2::1]) by acme.spoerlein.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p9CKV7HH009804 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:31:07 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from uqs@spoerlein.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=spoerlein.net; s=dkim200908; t=1318451467; bh=o1wKzK5nKTXR5W65XfCr4mbr5VzZtRngFQq0KE6JcII=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:In-Reply-To; b=jf+4Fr2oTi7pCdaNIWnjBib9xaPk0rX8SE4M55RpowxDjVa+AJAWTQNy0WI6+E0XM EosX5SL6dmmof41ezH75ie5eY2tkyBpAwtprEKFcOEgTVumBx0o8jrQuIGdnoykRBB f70SSH9kUEr3zCUOn7+holFIXID9gjA/yvh21NU8= Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:31:07 +0200 From: Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= To: David Romano Message-ID: <20111012203107.GK26743@acme.spoerlein.net> References: <20111007141312.GJ26743@acme.spoerlein.net> <4E8F54BB.4000206@cpan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4E8F54BB.4000206@cpan.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: doceng@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conversion to SVN X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:31:11 -0000 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