> I've been using zipfiles to make snapshots of my development > directories. Recently, I've decided maybe a solution that's a little > more robust might be in order, so I'm looking to migrate to SVN. > > I'd like a bit of advice on how to go about doing that. Perhaps even > just a sanity check. > > Using the standard layout, I figured the current source would get > imported under trunk/ and each snapshot should be unzipped and imported > as a tag (eg: tags/release_x). > > If I understood correctly, unlike, say, RCS, since SVN doesn't version > individual files, I guess it doesn't matter so much what order things > get imported in. Right? > > If I follow this course of action, would I end up being penalized in > terms of disk usage or performance over some other, preferred method? > > Is the SVN server smart enough to realize that, even if I follow this > course of action, that > > /trunk/foo/bar.c > /tags/release1/foo/bar.c > /tags/release2/foo/bar.c > > are all the same file with minor (if any) differences?
If you do this you are going to get several copies. What I would do is create a trunk and import the oldest ZIP that you have. Then get a check out of trunk and copy your next version over it. Do and "add" and "commit" then tag it. Continue. Actually, there is a utility that is designed to import ZIPs that are different versions. Although now that everything is at apache.org I don't know where to find all the little utilties that used to be on tigris.org... and they don't seem to be at tigris.org either. BOb
