On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:08:54 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net wrote:
That problem was fixed in subversion 1.5, see http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externals.html (search for "frustrations"). However, the new svn:externals format is incompatible with subversion 1.4, so we'd erect a big roadblock for everyone stuck with svn 1.4 or earlier.
Stefan and I talked about moving to using https access for svn only, precisely for that reason. I think we have an "agreeable" cert, even by MITM-attack firewalls.
Even if we ignore all that, preserving history will be difficult.
I already did it. New repositories, containing only the history of the various projects. I removed the renames and moves (eg. LinuxBIOSv2/util/flash_and_burn to ../util/flashrom to util/flashrom), the code resides at /trunk from the beginning instead, and the revisions are renumbered.
Other than that, they're identical to what we have now.
I did that for coreboot-v1, flashrom and libpayload. Bayou and coreinfo would be the remaining candidates as far as I can see.
Regards, Patrick Georgi