Re: Create a project on Alioth and choose a RCS?

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 08:38:57AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Brendan O'Dea (bod@debian.org):
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 07:33:56AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > >-import the current sources in the trunk of this SVN
> > 
> > I take it that this could be done in such a was as to retain the history
> > in Scott's arch repositories?

I'd prefer to have the whole history as well.

> So (shouting out loud), who knows how to import an Arch archive into
> SVN and keeping the history.

Yesterday I started looking into this, I've got the CVS repo locally,
and I'm starting to play with tailor. It says it supports importing
from bazaar-ng fine, but no from baazar or tla.

> If this is impossible (or we don't know how to do it in short time), I
> suggest we import the current status in a SVN branch temporarily or
> somethign like this, just to have the codebase handy for
> everyone....the other solution being "the current codebase is in
> 'apt-get source dpkg'".

In the worst case, we could convert the CVS history and the latest
state from Scott's.

regards,
guillem