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Re: Details for svn test repository
Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> All we should be trying to do at this stage is get to a new VCS that
> is no worse than CVS on the axes we care about. I can't see any
> fundamental reason that we couldn't go back and add history later, if
> that's compelling and someone wants to do it. The same goes for file
> rename information: we're getting by without that now, and we can add
> it in later if need be.
You could be right, but I don't see how. Once you've set the revision
numbers, can you really go back and insert earlier revision numbers?
Once you've created revisions in which files are not renamed, can you
really insert the file renames? I don't think that would be would
minor hacking; I think it would be major surgery on the revision
control data.
Getting the old history in now, on the other hand, is minor hacking.
I'm perfectly willing to do some work to get it to happen.
If I am wrong, and it can easily be done later, I would be happy to
hear it.
Ian