SVN2BZR: what is svn.dump?

[Wouter van Heyst]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 01:26:32PM +0200, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> I try to convert some svn repositories to bzr one with svn2bzr tool:
> http://bazaar.canonical.com/svn2bzr
> 
> But I'm stuck with problem. This utility want to read "dump file with
> the history of a given Subversion repository". What it means? How to
> create this "dump"? It's definetely not SVN repositary itself because
> script want to read plain file:

You can create a dump with 'svnadmin dump repopath > repo.dump'

> Actually I want to convert my old CVS branches to BZR, but Tailor is
> very unclear and too complicated tool, and I want to try toolchain
> cvs2svn->svn2bzr first. Converting to svn is really simple with cvs2svn.

I can provide you with a Tailor config if you want.

Wouter van Heyst