Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 11 10:15, David Rothenberger wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jul 10 20:32, David Rothenberger wrote:
>>>> In response to a request on the mailing list [1], I've decided to
>>>> package svn_load_dirs as a separate package instead of including it
>>>> in subversion-tools. The main reason is to facilitate using cygport
>>>> to extract the tool from the Subversion repository; I can't see an
>>>> easy way to do that as part of the main subversion.cygport file.
>>>
>>> I can't comment on this subversion vs. cygport problem, but the
>>> package itself is fine. Shall I upload?
>>
>> Yes, please.
>>
>> Since the package is just a Perl script, I used the same links for both
>> the 32 and 64-bit packages. I think the same package should work fine
>> for both architectures. You can download it once and just copy it if you
>> want.
>
> Done as you suggested.
>
> But there's a catch: After uploading, while adding the svn_load_dirs
> package to the cygwin-pkg-maint file I noticed that there's already a
> package svn-load from Jari Aalto, which is apparently already the same
> thing per the setup.hint file:
>
> sdesc: "An enhanced import facility for Subversion"
> ldesc: "A free replacement for svn_load_dirs, an enhanced import facility
> for
> Subversion. The utility will commit a single changeset that alters a
> repository subtree to match a local directory. It detects filenames
> that have been removed or created, and uses this knowledge to prompt
> the user about file and directory movements within the subtree. An
> automatic tagging option is also supported. Svn-load is well suited
> for vendor branch maintenance, where external source is routinely
> imported and merged."
> category: Devel Python
> requires: python
>
> Does it really make sense to have this twice?
It's not the same thing. svn-load is a svn_load_dirs /replacement/ that
is written in Python, while svn_load_dirs is written in Perl.
I don't use either and can't comment about why someone would want to use
svn_load_dirs instead of svn-load, but they are not the exact same things.
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