[Kde-scm-interest] fetch history of a subdir

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 11.03.10 07:00:39, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2010 20.00.32 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm having a problem here with the rules for the kdevelop python plugin.
> > The original code was in a work-branch, then a new "python" directory
> > was created in playground and the code moved from the work-branch into a
> > subdir of this new subdir (in fact branches/work/kdev-pg_python_parser
> > was moved to ../python/kdev-pg_pyhton_parser). And then the directory
> > was renamed in playground to just "parser". I've tried the following to
> > import the history of the plugin as well as the parser code:
> > 
> > match /trunk/playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plugins/python/
> >   repository kdevelop-python
> >   branch master
> > end match
> > 
> > match /branches/work/kdev-pg_python_parser/
> >   repository kdevelop-python
> >   branch master
> > end match
> > 
> > match /trunk/playground/devtools/kdevelop4-extra-plugins/python
> >   action recurse
> > end match
> > 
> > Unfortunately this generates a repository which has the files of the
> > parser subdir also in the top-level directory. So it seems like one of
> > the moves wasn't followed properly.
> > 
> > Any suggestions how to fix this without loosing the history from the
> > work-branch?
> 
> If all moves are with svn history I don't think you need to do anything. The 
> tool does it for you.

As I said, the above rules create a broken repo. If I leave out the
branches/work/kdev-pg_python_parser then that part of the history is
lost (IIRC, will do another run and double-check).

Andreas

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