Hello Tom,

I have the same problem, and I was looking for a fix a long time also. Possibly there is an easy fix, if you look here (1). This is the full path name lookup code. It will recurse down all parents until we reach the root node and then we assign the root folder name "/". Possibly it is sufficient to set this to "/trunk/".

Later (2), when the Labels are handled, we have a little problem. Now the label directory is /Labels/ but all pathes are encoded as /trunk/... So we will end up with /Labels/label/trunk/... Not perfect either, but a possible solution...

We could naturally remove the "label base" from the path, with the "label base" beeing the directory where we assigned the label. But this would brake "Label promotion". How would we handle a situation, when a label is assigned to some path. Later the same label is assigned to a file within the path. In the current situation the labels directory is a hierarchical mirror of the trunk. It is not depending on the place where you assigned the label. It will always mirror the complete structure.

I will give it a try.

Best regards
Dirk


[1] http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/browser/trunk/script/Vss2Svn/ActionHandler.pm#L717 [2] http://www.pumacode.org/projects/vss2svn/browser/trunk/script/Vss2Svn/Dumpfile.pm#L548

Tom Widmer schrieb:
I've been trying to use vss2svn to migrate our VSS repository to SVN.
However, our repository has over 1000 top level labels (of $\) which are
added by our automated build process. As indicated in the thread about
"Label support", you are aware that this leads to over 2000 levels of
nesting of the labels folder. E.g.

Labels
 ...
 -build.1000
  -labels
   ...
   -build.999
    -labels
     ...
     -build.998
       ... (2000 levels of nesting)

The obvious solution to this is to (optionally) place the repository in
a subfolder. E.g.

labels
  -build.1
    Trunk-contents
  ...
  -build.1000
    trunk-contents
trunk
  trunk-contents

Where $\ maps to trunk\.

I've had a look at the scripts in the hope of making the modification
myself (and of course passing it back), but I'm not really familiar
enough with perl or the vss2svn scripts to work out what needs changing.
Could you either give me an outline of what I need to change, or take
this as an enhancement request?

(I imagine there are various stages at which the "trunk" bit could be
inserted, but someone else probably has a feeling for the best stage to
add it. Would it work to do a simple minded thing in the Node module,
adding "trunk" to the start of the paths if and only if they don't begin
with "labels"?)

Thanks,

Tom
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