Re: Git vs SVN (was: Can we improve things?)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 21:39 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:

> I think one of 2 things:
> 1. Because /cvs/gnome was a repos, and /svn is not. E.g., under CVS, you
> couldn't (IIRC) create something under /cvs, but you could under SVN.
> 2. CVS was smart enough to create the repos
> 
> If you check svn help import you see:
> import: Commit an unversioned file or tree into the repository.
> 
> "into the repository" ... it isn't smart enough to create the repos
> 
> e.g., see the error message:
> svn: No repository found in 'svn+ssh://svn.gnome.org/svn/foobar'
> 
> 
> This is why I proposed testingground.. if that would exist, you could
> create a repos there. However, later on, you want to move that into a
> real repos. IMO that might be nice on short term, not on long term
> (needs to be a real repos, dump&load work, etc).

Does this work though? I mean, if testingground is a single module, is
it really possible to extract the version history for a single
subdirectory and create a new svn module from that?