Rev 639: Merge 0.4 documentation updates. in file:///data/jelmer/bzr-svn/noschemes/
Jelmer Vernooij
jelmer at samba.org
Sun Feb 3 14:55:28 GMT 2008
At file:///data/jelmer/bzr-svn/noschemes/
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revno: 639
revision-id:jelmer at samba.org-20080203145527-a2gsjfajwqviy1s7
parent: jelmer at samba.org-20080203145223-rxhhftivnc2pg9up
parent: jelmer at samba.org-20080203141649-4klh5rxogatt4txu
committer: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
branch nick: noschemes
timestamp: Sun 2008-02-03 15:55:27 +0100
message:
Merge 0.4 documentation updates.
modified:
FAQ faq-20070910195147-p9u38s9wplds2d4o-1
NEWS news-20061231030336-h9fhq245ie0de8bs-1
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revno: 579.1.320
revision-id:jelmer at samba.org-20080203141649-4klh5rxogatt4txu
parent: jelmer at samba.org-20080203141223-7d0k2zn39i5vc01g
committer: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
branch nick: 0.4
timestamp: Sun 2008-02-03 15:16:49 +0100
message:
Update formatting of FAQ file.
modified:
FAQ faq-20070910195147-p9u38s9wplds2d4o-1
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revno: 579.1.319
revision-id:jelmer at samba.org-20080203141223-7d0k2zn39i5vc01g
parent: jelmer at samba.org-20080202144835-ru01007ojxb6xl5z
committer: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
branch nick: 0.4
timestamp: Sun 2008-02-03 15:12:23 +0100
message:
Update NEWS.
modified:
NEWS news-20061231030336-h9fhq245ie0de8bs-1
=== modified file 'FAQ'
--- a/FAQ 2008-01-29 12:19:43 +0000
+++ b/FAQ 2008-02-03 14:16:49 +0000
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-#FORMAT rst
-
-=================================================================
+bzr-svn frequently asked questions
+==================================
+
+.. contents::
+
Bazaar is using a lot of memory accessing a Subversion repository
-=================================================================
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
bzr-svn can use a lot of memory cloning big branches when older
versions of the python-subversion bindings are used. This memory leak
has been fixed in the trunk of Subversion (r28544) and has been
@@ -11,9 +13,8 @@
One way to work around this problem is to Ctrl+C the branch operation
and restart it.
-==============================================================================
I am unable to access a repository that requires user/password authentication.
-==============================================================================
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Python bindings required for password prompting are only present in
version 1.5 of Subversion so password prompting is only possible if
you have that version installed.
@@ -23,9 +24,8 @@
the password by accessing the repository using the Subversion command-line
client. For example, try running 'svn info <url>'.
-==============================================================================
Trying to branch into repository gives an error about incompatibility.
-==============================================================================
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
Creating a repository and then trying to clone a Subversion branch into
that repository may cause the following error:
@@ -41,18 +41,16 @@
$ bzr upgrade --rich-root-pack
-===========================================================================
Pushing a branch that didn't exist in Subversion yet with `bzr push` fails.
-===========================================================================
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
At the moment, only `bzr svn-push` can be used to push new branches into
-Subversion.
+Subversion. Future releases will include this functionality in `bzr push`.
More information can be found in the bug report at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-svn/+bug/127945.
-==============================================
Cloning a large Subversion branch is very slow
-==============================================
+----------------------------------------------
There is no way around this at the moment, because Bazaar has to import all
the history from the Subversion branch as it doesn't support so-called
history horizons yet.
@@ -60,9 +58,8 @@
More information about history horizons can be found at:
http://bazaar-vcs.org/HistoryHorizon
-=====================================================
The Bazaar revno's differ from the Subversion revno's
-=====================================================
+-----------------------------------------------------
That's right. Bazaar revision numbers are per-branch, whereas Subversion revno's are per-repository. If you
would like to use Subversion revision numbers, use the "svn:" revision specifier. For example:
@@ -70,18 +67,16 @@
$ bzr ls -rsvn:34 svn://example.com/bar
-=========================================================================
Bazaar reports branches have diverged while pulling, when they haven't
-=========================================================================
+----------------------------------------------------------------------
As of version 0.4, bzr-svn creates revisions with different revision ids than
previous versions. In other words, existing bzr-svn branches created with
0.3.x can not be used directly with 0.4.0 but will have to be upgraded to
work with 0.4.0 using the "bzr svn-upgrade" command. The bzr-rebase package
has to be installed for this command to work correctly.
-============================================================================
Is it possible to keep the author name when pushing changes into Subversion?
-============================================================================
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, but this requires the repository to allow revision property changes.
See hooks/pre-revprop-change in the Subversion repository for
@@ -90,17 +85,15 @@
You also need to enable support for this in bzr-svn by setting
override-svn-revprops to True in ~/.bazaar/bazaar.conf.
-======================================================================================
I converted my Subversion repository using svn-import, but now all branches are empty!
-======================================================================================
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bzr-svn does not create working trees by default. If you need
the working trees, run "bzr checkout" in the branch or
specify --trees to svn-import.
-=================================================================================
bzr-svn did a replace operation when I tried to push a merge commit to Subversion
-=================================================================================
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes, this is because bzr-svn has to preserve the left-hand side history of your
branch.
=== modified file 'NEWS'
--- a/NEWS 2008-02-01 13:25:44 +0000
+++ b/NEWS 2008-02-03 14:55:27 +0000
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
bzr-svn 0.4.8 UNRELEASED
+ BUGS
+
+ * Fix path to URL conversion for Windows NT.
+
+ INTERNALS
+
+ * Allow multiple mappings to be available at the same time.
+
bzr-svn 0.4.7 2008-02-01
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