svn2bzr

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On 11/21/06, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 07:16 +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 15:38 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > > > I have bzr 0.12 on Debian Sarge.
> > > Sorry, that looks like bitrot. The latest version of svn2bzr I have
> > > worked on worked with bzr 0.8 and there have been a lot of API changes
> > > between 0.8 and 0.12. I am no longer maintaining svn2bzr, I work on
> > > bzr-svn (http://launchpad.net/products/bzr-svn) these days.
> > given that bzr-svn is intrinsically more complex because of the
> > roundtrip support etc, do you think there is value in having svn2bzr
> > maintained for 'we're converting kthnxbye' scenarios ?
> Yes, I think there is certainly use for svn2bzr. For example, things
> like rename support are much easier to support in svn2bzr than in
> bzr-svn.
>
> I also think svn2bzr should use the python-subversion bindings (one of
> my svn2bzr branches does so and is significantly smaller and less
> bug-prone than the original).
>
>
Just as another datapoint, I tried to use svn2bzr to convert some svn trees
last week with no luck, so I tried using bzr-svn, but found it too hard to
get working on Gentoo (because of the subversion python bindings patch), so
I finally ended up using Tailor, which had it's own problems, but I was
finally able to get the repo converted.
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