bzr-svn svn-import and history across svn "renames"

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 15:01 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> Chris Hecker wrote:
> > 
> > I need to look at the fast-(export|import) thing some more, but it looks
> > like it requires the svn python bindings, which are a mess on win32,
> > especially now that svn is on apache.org, tigris isn't making binaries
> > anymore.  I also didn't see any indication that it supported rename
> > inference when I looked last night.  Does anybody know if it does?
> 
> I'm pretty sure bzr-fastimport contains an exporter from svn which uses
> the subvertpy bindings. Which are shipped with the win32 build because
> they are also used by bzr-svn.
> 
> I don't have any idea if it directly supports rename inference, but it
> would certainly be a safer place to do it.
subvertpy contains a fastexport stream generator (Ian and I discussed
where it should live and decided to go with subvertpy in the end). 

It does not support rename inference at the moment (patches welcome,
though!)

Cheers,

Jelmer

> Also, I'm sure the fastimport *stream* can encode renames.

> > 
> > I agree about putting more work into "real" features like supporting
> > copies rather than hacks, I'm mostly just pointing out that any svn repo
> > with renames in it is kind of lost in the middle between svn's decision
> > to not support first class renames, and bzr's decision to not support
> > copies, and as far as I can tell, there's no "this will just work" thing
> > I can run to fix it, which is sad for somebody who's motivated to make
> > the switch but can't.
> > 
> > Back to blindly hacking on svn2bzr.py, I suppose.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > 
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