Debian Bug report logs - #310707
svk: move/copy can make revision hard to follow or loss

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: gary ng <linux@garyng.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: svk: move/copy can make revision hard to follow or loss

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:16:12 +0800

Package: svk
Version: 1.00-1
Severity: important

I like svk very much but found a very annoying "lack of feature" that
makes it scary to use. Here is the situation :

1. create a /repo/branch/linux/vanilla branch
2. make lots of change with lots of commit
3. I need to patch in some third party patches against vanilla
4. Do a svk copy /repo/branch/linux/vanilla /repo/branch/linux/abc
5. apply changes to a checkout of vanilla
6. now I move vanilla to linux/feature-1
7. then I either move/copy linux/abc back to vanilla

Now if I do a svk log on either abc/vanilla/feature-1, I lose all the
changes history in (2) because move/copy would be considered to be the
base. Luckily for the "log" command, there is a "-x" that can trace back
through the move/copy and I get the history. However, other operations
like "diff" cannot do it.

What this means is that if after a period of time I found that there is
some changes that I need to revert that happens during (2), I cannot do
it directly to feature-1 branch but I need to do it by finding out the
changes in vanilla branch.

However, if I happen to have move vanilla to something else(say I use
vanilla initially for 2.4 kernel but later becomes 2.6), I cannot
track back the changes anymore unless I "rename" it back to vanilla.

This can be very difficult to management if I have thousands of change
involving copy/move in between.

Surprisingly, since svk use the same repo as svn, I tried svn instead
and found that svn can back trace to the root even after copy/move so
everything is there(and I can do diff using svn command on the same
tree), just that svk doesn't have the ability to do it(well the log 
command can) fully yet.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.31-pre2-xbox
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages svk depends on:
ii  libalgorithm-annotate-perl    0.10-1     represent a series of changes in a
ii  libalgorithm-diff-perl        1.19.01-1  a perl library for finding Longest
ii  libclass-autouse-perl         1.17-1     Defer loading ( 'use'ing ) of a cl
ii  libclone-perl                 0.15-1     recursively copy Perl datatypes
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         1.34-1     Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libdata-hierarchy-perl        0.21-1     Handle data in a hierarchical stru
ii  libfile-type-perl             0.22-1     determine file type using magic st
ii  libfreezethaw-perl            0.43-2     converting Perl structures to stri
ii  libio-digest-perl             0.10-1     Calculate digests while reading or
ii  libio-string-perl             1.05-1     Emulate IO::File interface for in-
ii  liblocale-maketext-lexicon-pe 0.49-1     Lexicon-handling backends for "Loc
ii  liblocale-maketext-simple-per 0.12-2     Simple interface to Locale::Makete
ii  libperlio-eol-perl            0.13-1     PerlIO layer for normalizing line 
ii  libperlio-via-dynamic-perl    0.11-1     dynamic PerlIO layers
ii  libperlio-via-symlink-perl    0.03-1     PerlIO layers for create symlinks
ii  libpod-simple-perl            3.02-2     Perl framework for parsing files i
ii  libregexp-shellish-perl       0.93-1     Shell-like regular expressions
ii  libsvn-core-perl              1.1.4-2    perl bindings for Subversion (aka.
ii  libsvn-mirror-perl            0.61-1     A subversion repository mirroring 
ii  libsvn-simple-perl            0.27-1     A simple interface for writing a d
ii  libtext-diff-perl             0.35-2     Perform diffs on files and record 
ii  libtimedate-perl              1.1600-4   Time and date functions for Perl
ii  libyaml-perl                  0.38-2     YAML Ain't Markup Language (tm)
ii  perl                          5.8.4-8    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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Message #10 received at 310707-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marco Rodrigues <gothicx@sapo.pt>

To: 310707-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Package svk has been removed from Debian

Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:53:05 +0000 (WET)

Version: 2.0.2-3+rm

You filled the bug http://bugs.debian.org/310707 in Debian BTS
against the package svk. I'm closing it at *unstable*, but it will
remain open for older distributions.

For more information about this package's removal, read
http://bugs.debian.org/554335. That bug might give the reasons why
this package was removed and suggestions of possible replacements.

Don't hesitate to reply to this mail if you have any question.

Thank you for your contribution to Debian.

--
Marco Rodrigues

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