Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 07:55:29 -0400 From: Geoff Speicher <geoff@speicher.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Subject: Re: Public Access to Perforce? Message-ID: <20040819115529.GA65227@sirius.speicher.org> In-Reply-To: <1092888359.62194.7.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040818112543.55952C-100000@fledge.watson.org> <1092844084.705.7.camel@localhost.kitchenlab.org> <20040818190646.GF90227@sirius.firepipe.net> <1092888359.62194.7.camel@tomcat.kitchenlab.org>
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On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:05:59PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 12:06, Will Andrews wrote: > > > That's mostly because it's extremely polluted. Branch and tag > > names are mixed all over the place. That doesn't sit well with > > the normal subversion tree style, due to name collisions. > > In the normal subversion repository layout (and what's used by cvs2svn > by default), branches and tags live in two separate hierarchies, so I'm > not sure what kind of collisions you're talking about. There was a discussion on -hackers and/or -chat a while back about this. I can't find the whole discussion anywhere right now, but there are a few messages in this -chat digest, towards the end between Narvi and Lev: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=subversion+symbols+group:*freebsd*&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=20040109200044.8363C16A4D3_hub.freebsd.org%40ns.sol.net&rnum=5 I had tried converting the FreeBSD repository at around the same time and found the same issues. Basically, the repository needs a fair bit of manual clean-up. Geoff
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