Questions about the results of conversion using svn-import

[Matt Doran]

Scott Aubrey wrote:
> I stand corrected, thanks Jelmer. This sounds like a another win for 
> seperate repository from branch :)
>
> - Scott
>
> On 21 Mar 2010, at 02:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 14:26 +0000, Scott Aubrey wrote:
>>
>>> On 21 Mar 2010, at 11:53 AM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> (snip)
>>>>> I'm also curious about what makes up these branches.  All the
>>>>> revisions/data for the branches are stored in the shared repo, but
>>>>> is
>>>>> there a way to discover/list the branches that exist within the
>>>>> repo
>>>>> itself.  Or is the data stored in the branch directories important
>>>>> in
>>>>> retrieving the appropriate data out of the repo?    Hmmmm... I
>>>>> don't
>>>>> know if I've explained that well .... put another way ... if I
>>>>> delete
>>>>> a branch directory, is there anyway to recover the branch from the
>>>>> data stored in the repository alone?
>>>> The repository is what stores the actual revisions. A repository can
>>>> be
>>>> colocated with a branch or be higher up in the filesystem (a shared
>>>> repository). bzr-svn creates shared repositories by default unless
>>>> you
>>>> specify --standalone. "bzr info" will tell you the location of the
>>>> repository that's being used by a particular branch.
>>>>
>>>> The branch is mainly just a pointer to a revision in the repository.
>>>>> (snip)
>>
>>> I don't think this fully answer the OP's question.
>>
>>> The answer is (AFAIK)that if you accidentally deleted a branch, the
>>> only way the recreate that is from another branch that contains that
>>> revision already. So, if you only have one branch storing it's
>>> revisions in a shared repo, then you delete that branch, AFAIK you
>>> cannot bring that branch back from just the revision only, certainly
>>> not using the standard bzr commands.
>> You can recreate this branch using the standard Bazaar commands, though
>> it is a bit trickier than if you already have another branch that is
>> based on the one you are trying to bring back to life.
>>
>> "bzr heads --dead" will tell you what revisions without ancestors don't
>> have a branch attached to them. Using the revision id it reports you can
>> resurrect the branch. ("bzr init x; bzr pull -d x
>> -rrevid:<revid-found>")
>>
Thanks for all that, useful to know.

I noticed that it created some branches that have subsequently been 
already deleted/renamed.   Is it expected to create branches that no 
longer exist at HEAD in the svn repository.

Regards,
Matt