Problem Converting from Subversion to Mercurial

[Greg Ward]

On 22 August 2012, Todd Greer said:

> I'm having a bit of difficulty with a conversion from a particular
> Subversion repository, and I would be very grateful if anyone could
> offer some useful advice.
> 
> The svn repo in question has several different projects, and used a
> somewhat nonstandard layout. Each project had it's own "trunk" and
> "branches" (though the latter mostly stores what the team considers
> tags). Every time they started development towards a new release, they
> copied the trunk of every relevant project to a new directory, and
> created a new "branches" directory next to it. I'll illustrate:

Mercurial's svn conversion assumes the standard /trunk, /branches,
/tags layout. Diverge from that and results are ... ummm ...
undefined.

As a quick hack, you could just modify hgext/convert/subversion.py and
change it to have a hardcoded assumption of *your* svn repository's
layout. If you get ambitious, refactor it so other users can specify
source svn layouts more flexibly ("project trunk is here, branches are
there") and send in a patch!

       Greg