Re: TeX task force
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 01:41:46PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Die, 14 Feb 2006, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > > Maybe one can use "svnadmin dump | svnadmin load" to do this.
> >
> > Nope.
>
> >From the svn FAQ:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#multi-merge
>
> How do I merge two completely separate repositories?
>
> If you don't care about retaining all the history of one of the
> repositories, you can just create a new directory under one project's
> repository, then import the other.
>
> If you care about retaining the history of both, then you can use
> 'svnadmin dump' to dump one repository, and 'svnadmin load' to load it
> into the other repository. The revision numbers will be off, but you'll
> still have the history.
Cool!!
> So I would propose the following:
> - migrate the WHOLE pkg-tetex to pkg-tex
> - dump the pkg-texlive and load it into pkg-tex
>
> The rev numbers for pkg-texlive imported stuff will be wrong, but I
> don't care.
Go for it! We just need to set up a new project on alioth - please
could you go ahead and do this?
Who is going to speak to the listmasters? (They tend to take a while
to do things, so might as well ask now.)
Julian
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