RE: Mirroring svn functionality with SVNKit

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quadelirus [mailto:john.bowers@...]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 6:49 AM
> To: svnkit-users@...
> Subject: Mirroring svn functionality with SVNKit
>
>
> Okay, I've been looking at examples and reading the SVNKit
> documentation, but
> I just can't figure out how to do something that I think should be
> basic and
> simple.
>
> I'm writing an app to take a project from an existing version control
> system
> (not SVN) and migrate it and all its history to an SVN server. In order
> to
> do this, I have set up a repository on the remote SVN server.
>
> My code currently works by traversing the project as it looks in the
> existing version control system and basically replicating it in a
> temporary
> directory. I then use the svn command line tools to add things to the
> repository. Basically it works like this:
>
> Use java to create the following directories:
>
> project/
> project/trunk
> project/branches
> project/tags
>
> Then use java to call "svn import path/to/project
> svn://path/to/repository
> --username=...", using Runtime.getRuntime.exec(command);
>
> I then delete the temporarily created project directory and SVN has the
> new
> folder structure stored in it.
>
> Next I create a project directory again and this time use java Runtime
> to
> call:
>
> svn checkout svn://path/to/repsotory/project/trunk path/to/project
> --username=...
>
> In order to create a checked out repository on the local file system.
>
> Finally, I loop through each file in my existing versioning system,
> then I
> grab its history and for each version write it to the disk and then
> call
>
> svn commit path/to/project -m "A message that has to do with the
> existing
> file"
>
> In other words:
>
> foreach file in existing_versioning_project:
> foreach history_version of file:
> write_to_filesystem(file)
> Runtime.getRuntime.exec("svn commit path/to/project -m...")
>
> Okay, so this works great, except for one issue: it is really really
> slow
> and I have like 100,000 revisions to go through (I got through like
> 10,000
> in a few hours). So I want to replace it with calls to SVNKit intsead
> of
> spawning new processes. I can see how to edit a local repository using
> ISVNEditor, and I can see how to get information on a remote
> repository, but
> I can't figure out how to connect a local file structure to a remote
> repository. In otherwords how do I exactly mirror the funcionality of
>
> svn import
> svn checkout
> svn commit
>
> using SVNKit?
>
> I've been reading documentation and tutorials for hours, and I'm just
> not
> seeing how to put the pieces together to do this.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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