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

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Friday 29 July 2005 09:17, Jim Fulton wrote:
 > 1. We were making extensive use of symbolic links to share packages
 >     among various Zope projects.  This requires special care and
 >     was the main reason I wrote my own scrips.
 >
 >     I don't expect that this would be an issue for Python.

I know of three symlinks in the Python repository, all from the distutils 
project.  There's one for the package and one for each of the documents.

 > 2. I initially tried to conver our entire repository, including all
 >     branches.  This would have taken days.  I finally decided to just
 >     convert our trunk, which took several hours.  The main time
 >     sink was in the load step of the conversion process.

This might be a possibility for Python as well, though we have a much less 
complex branching structure, so the conversion may not be so difficult.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>