Question about Launchpad/Bazaar mirrors of Subversion repositories

[Jonathan Lange]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 12:24 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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> Russel Winder wrote:
>> Launchpad has the ability to provide Bazaar branches that are
>> automatically updated mirrors of Subversion repositories.  If the
>> repository is actually storing a Bazaar branch because bzr-svn is being
>> used as the Subversion client and a branch was pushed (not dpushed),
>> does the Launchpad mirror recreate the whole committed Bazaar branch  or
>> is it just a mirror of the Subversion aspect of it.
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> Historically, the Launchpad mirroring script used its own converter,
> that didn't know anything about bzr-svn.
>

We still do. It's called cscvs and is available on Launchpad.

https://launchpad.net/launchpad-cscvs

> I *thought* I saw some work being done to use bzr-svn for the
> conversion, which would mean that sort of thing would "Just Work".
> However, my guess is that right now LP is still using its own converter.
>

We definitely want to use bzr-svn, and we done some of the work needed
to make that happen.

jml