[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

[Aahz]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 22:14, Tim Peters wrote:
>> 
>> Ah, before I forget, "single repository" has worked very well for Zope
>> (which includes top-level Zope2, Zope3, ZODB, ZConfig, zdaemon, ...
>> projects):
>> 
>>     http://svn.zope.org/
>> 
>> Long URLs don't really get in the way in practice (rarely a need to
>> type one after initial checkout; even "svn switch" is usually just a
>> tail-end cmdline edit starting from a copy+paste of "svn info"
>> output).
> 
> It depends.  In my use of svn, I do a lot of cross-branch merging and
> repo-side tagging.  Those are done with urls and in those cases, long
> urls can suck.  But we may not do a ton of that with the Python project,
> and besides it might not be important enough to split the directories.

Why can't you write a Python script to generate the URLs?  <0.3 wink>
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