Help with bzr-svn

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at vernstok.nl
Thu Feb 26 03:31:22 GMT 2009


On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 16:22 +1300, Talden wrote:
> I've been playing with bzr-svn (on windows with bzr 1.11).  Generally
> it's been a good experience but I am uncertain about how to get the
> history our developers would expect.
> 
> NB: Numbers and paths are fabricated for the purpose of this email.
> Based on a true story.
> 
> If I "bzr branch svn://server/repo/dev/projectX/newtrunk"  I get about
> 100 revisions. The trouble is that a little while ago 'newtrunk' was
> copied from "svn://server/repo/dev/projectX/oldtrunk" where another
> 10000 revisions should be.
> 
> "oldtrunk" still exists and has a few patches applied and I'd like to
> branch that too...
> 
> "branches" and "tags" are siblings of "newtrunk" and "oldtrunk" and
> contain copies of either "newtrunk" or "oldtrunk".
> 
> Issues.
> 1. The history for "newtrunk" stops dead at a very recent 100 revisions.
> 2. "newtrunk" should be quite cheap in a shared repo as it is only 100
> revisions diverged from "oldtrunk".
Use the bzr 1.12 installer with a newer version of bzr-svn. This
version doesn't restrict the branch names.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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