Why orphaned?

[Jon Hardcastle]

2 things..

1) Show off! :)

2) Where were you 2months ago when i needed advise
like that!

;)

--- Nathan Kidd <nathan-svn at spicycrypto.ca> wrote:

> Jon Hardcastle wrote:
> > Just as a second to what this chap replied with -
> I
> > have just finished (well 2months ago) migrating
> > several repositories with chequered histories at
> > best.. and all quite large.. I got the best sucess
> > when i did the following.
> 
> ...
> > Create your SVN repos.. and attempt an import. In
> my
> > experience it kept falling over on the import back
> in.
> > 
> > My cut and burn solution to this was to delete
> delete
> > the file that caused the problem IN SOURCE SAFE. I
> > also found that if 1 file in a dir complained it
> was
> > likely several would - save yourself some time. if
> non
> > of the histories to these files are import purge
> the
> > directory containing them..
> > 
> > Repeat until you can migrate, and import without
> > error.
> 
> In the recent conversion I did I found it fairly
> easy to :
> 
> 1. svnamin load, observe on which revision it fails
> 2. 'svndumptool split' [1] the failing revision out
> of the main dumpfile 
> such that you get A.dump (revisions before bad rev),
> B.dump (the bad 
> revision) and C.dump (revisions after bad rev).
> 3. Open B.dump in your favourite editor that won't
> mangle binary data 
> (vi!) and fix it.  (Does a parent directory need to
> be created?  Is a 
> rename wrong? Forcibly "un-orphan" a file by
> reconnecting its path to 
> its true parent, etc.)  The format is pretty easy to
> work with if you're 
> careful -- just copy an entry similar to what you
> want and tweak.
> 4. svnadmin load A.dump, B.dump, C.dump
> 5. Goto 1, for any problem in C.dump.
> 
> I found this much faster than trying to change
> something in the vss2svn 
> process, and it guaranteed working results.
> 
> -Nathan
> 
> [1] http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/
> 
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N: Jon Hardcastle
E: Jon at eHardcastle.com
'The writing is on the wall...'
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