rearranging the tree

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:19:22PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:28:49 +0200 > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <> wrote: >  >
> Hi! >
> I'd like to re-arrange the tree to match standard >
> svn layout. >
> Could you elaborate for those of us not familiar with svn?  OK.  At the moment we have all files under  https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio  this means we can not create tags or branches since in svn these are sub-directories - and there is no where to put them.  The standard calls for this layout:
https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio/trunk
https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio/branches
https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio/tags
and each tag/branch is a sub-directory there.  This re-arrangement more or less disconnects files from history: you can retrieve all old history before old v1.0, or you can retrieve new history since v1.0, but not both in same local repo or at least not conveniently.
> >  >
> This means it will be slightly trickier to get >
> at the pre-move content, if anyone wants to >
> see that history. > >  >
> Specifically one needs to know the exact revision to >
> check out. >
> Is it possible to add tags or something like that?  It will be *after* the refactoring.
> >  >
> I'll add a README file to document the steps. > >  >
> Thoughts? > >
> My main concern would be that I'd still want to use git-svn with local
> git branches for cherrypicking etc. Otherwise, I don't care too much.  That will still work, but you will have to re-create your git tree.

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