status of SVN to Mercurial conversion tools

Sean Kelley svk.sweng at gmail.com
Mon Sep 3 09:40:43 CDT 2007


Hi,

On 8/27/07, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2007-08-27 19:07, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
> >Giorgos Keramidas ha scritto:
> >> On 2007-08-27 16:33, Manlio Perillo <manlio_perillo at libero.it> wrote:
> >>> Any open issues?
> >>> How are branches handled?
> >>
> >> By creating "in repository" branches.  You can 'strip' branch heads
> >> with "hg clone -r branch" later, too.
> >
> > I have several subprojects in the same repository, and I want to split
> > them into separate Mercurial repository.
> >
> > Should I split them with Subversion first, or Mercurial can handle this?
>
> I've only tried single-project repositories, so I'm not sure about this.
>
> It may be worth dumping a copy of the repository and filtering through
> the dump to create per-project svn repositories, but I don't know if
> that is too much trouble for you :)

I can confirm that the new svn convert feature in crew does not appear
to support multiple SVN projects in a single SVN repository.  So in my
case I am just using hgsvn.  I think it would be a good idea for hg
convert to support multiple projects in repository.

Sean


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