<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Jelmer Vernooij wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1269172436.3709.834.camel@ganieda" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 17:28 +1100, Matt Doran wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. :) </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">What exactly did you find disjoint? What places did you look at ? Hopefully we can improve this a bit. :) </pre> </blockquote> 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: <a href="http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/svn2bzr">http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/svn2bzr</a> . 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 <a href="http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion">http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/BzrForeignBranches/Subversion</a>. It has a 2 lines mentioning "svn-import". Then I searched for: bzr svn-import .... leading me to: <a href="http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/BzrMigration">http://wiki.bazaar-vcs.org/BzrMigration</a> ... again this has one line mentioning svn-import. Another result returned by google was: <a href="http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/svn_plugin.html">http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/user-guide/svn_plugin.html</a>. 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): <a href="http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/data-migration/subversion-to-bazaar.html">http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/data-migration/subversion-to-bazaar.html</a>. 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 </body> </html>