[Kde-games-devel] Two kinds of tagsbranches.

[Nicolás Alvarez]

Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> there are two kinds of tags/branches for all tags/branches before the
> CVS->SVN conversion. Those confuse me. If I understand what is going
> on, then it is as following:
> 
> CVS tags:
> /tags/KDE_1_2_3_RELEASE/
> /tags/kgoldrunner-1-2-3/
> 
> CVS branches:
> /branches/KDE_1_2_BRANCH/
> 
> SVN tags:
> /tags/KDE/1.2.3/
> /tags/kgoldrunner/1.2.3/
> 
> SVN branches:
> /branches/KDE/1.2/
> 
> If both exist for any version, the latter were created for/by the
> CVS2SVN conversion.
> 
> If that is correct, here is my question. Does it matter which ones we
> use? The current rules are written in a way that seem to get both. And
> then we remove those that do not work (I forgot which one that was),
> right?

You *have* to use both. If you only use the new SVN format, you'll only get 
the renaming commit for branches KDE1.0 to ~KDE3.4, which means the latest 
code. You won't get all the history of those branches, since the actual 
code-changing commits were done under the old CVS naming.

-- 
Nicolas