Questions about the results of conversion using svn-import

[Matt Doran]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 17:28 +1100, Matt Doran wrote:
>   
>> PS: The first step of converting our repo was really painless... I'm
>> looking forward to the rest that bzr has to offer.  The documentation
>> in the area of conversion does seem a bit non-existent and/or
>> disjointed and/or hard-to-find.  Then again ... maybe there's not that
>> much to know. :)
>>     
> What exactly did you find disjoint? What places did you look at ?
> Hopefully we can improve this a bit. :)
>
>
>   
To illustrate, it's probably best to explain my experience on trying to 
figure out how to do the conversion....

First I googled for something like "convert svn repository to bzr", and 
the most obvious result is: http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/svn2bzr .  But 
further investigation seemed to suggest that people had problems with 
this, and it's not really maintained any more.   I don't know if this is 
true.

The next link I found was 
http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion.    It has a 2 
lines mentioning "svn-import".

Then I searched for: bzr svn-import  .... leading me to: 
http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/BzrMigration   ... again this has one line 
mentioning svn-import.  

Another result returned by google was: 
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/svn_plugin.html.  
This has a line on svn-import in relation to creating a mirror of your 
SVN repository.... not really discussing a full conversion.

Just now I found this section of the manual (didn't really appear in 
google searches):  
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/data-migration/subversion-to-bazaar.html.  
But again it's just a couple of sentences.... and mostly referring to to 
fast-export.... which I'd not encountered until now.

So all of this leaves a confusing/poor first impression for people 
looking for alternatives to SVN.     If there was a single prominent 
document explaining the best practise in doing the conversion so that 
anyone could follow and understand the options and steps .... it would 
be a much more approachable for the average svn admin.  

In the end I just tried svn-import and it mostly "just worked".    :) 

PS: Ironically the motivation for me to try this again after toying with 
it 6 months or so ago was Joel Spolsky's mercurial tutorial.   :)

Regards,
Matt



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