Bug#365734: ITP: svn2bzr -- Converts a Subversion repository to a Bazaar 2.0 repository

[Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:52:54PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>


> > * Package name    : svn2bzr
> >   Version         : 0.6.0
> >   Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net>
> > * URL             : http://www.bazaar-vcs.org/svn2bzr
> > * License         : GPL
> >   Programming Lang: Python
> >   Description     : Converts a Subversion repository to a Bazaar 2.0 repository

> > Converts a Subversion repository to a set of Bazaar 2.0 branches. This
> > tool does one-way conversions only and can not be used for incremental 
> > updates. Input will be read from a standard Subversion dump file.
> What can do snv2bzr that cannot be done with tailor (that allows
> incremental updates and two-way conversions) ? This is a real question
> as I do not know anything about Bazaar.
svn2bzr converts more then one branch (tailor can convert only one
branch and does not track the relationship between branches). It keeps more metadata (such as
ignored files, and executable bits). It is also faster then tailor and works
better (tailor fails in a lot of corner cases).

Cheers,

Jelmer

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