Re: [SVN-MIGRATION] Argh!

Travis Swicegood kirjoitti:

On Jul 11, 2009, at 12:24 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

Travis Swicegood wrote:

That's actually a *really* bad idea. There are a lot of third-party tools that rely on the standard SVN repository layout that this will break. It would be much easier to write a few simple scripts to handle checkouts of multiple repositories or as Hannes pointed out use svn:externals with a few repositories such as pecl-all might also be a good solution.

What sort of 3rd party tools? I'm more worried about our own 1st party tools that are currently completely broken because of this structure.

Well, off of the top of my head it becomes much, much harder to do a git svn clone on it. :-)

If we had wanted to use git, we would. But we didn't so saying it's the reason not to make things easier is moot.

I believe, though I'm not positive since I don't use them on a regular basis, that most GUIs would be broken as well. Subversion doesn't have a real concept of a branch or a tag. They're all just copies of code, so they use a convention in the file-system to denote what's what. Most 3rd-party apps are going to rely on it to show things like branches and tags and whatnot.

WHAT 3rd-party apps? Without proof this point is also moot. --Jani