On Jul 2, 2012, at 16:49, David Newman wrote: > Consider a repository with multiple projects. Each project is separately > dumped and imported into another repository. Where before the revisions were > sequential by time, now they are sequential by project. > > So far the only problem I have come across is that checkout by date isn't > completely accurate. The checkout seems to move forward through revisions > until it gets to the first revision that satisfies the timestamp and stops > there whereas for each subsequent project that is imported there are later > revisions that would also satisfy the request. > > 1) Will this create any other problems other than the timestamp checkout > problem?
That's the only problem I know of. Note that monolithic repositories like the Apache Foundation's own repository do this, and seem to survive. > 2) Is there a way to reinterleave the revisions, i.e. take two dumps, cat and > sort revisions by commit date? svndumptool offers this feature. http://web.archive.org/web/20101102200928/http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/ They call this feature "merge". Read about it here: http://web.archive.org/web/20091028024633/http://svn.borg.ch/svndumptool/0.6.1/README.txt Download it here: http://distfiles.macports.org/python/svndumptool-0.6.1.tar.gz
