Best way to mirror subversion?

[Ralf Schmitt]

Sean Kelley wrote:
> I have been using hgsvn to mirror some subversion repositories.  I
> have a cronjob that does nightly calls to hgpullsvn in each mirror.
> However, I just noted that there are artifacts gettting introduced
> into mercurial repository.
> 
> A recent sync with our readonly mirror produced the usual
> conflict marker text:
> 
>    <<<<<<<< .mine
>    BLAH
>    ========
>    OTHER_STUFF
>    >>>>>>>> .r1234
> 
> It looks like spurious conflicts are being introduced into the text
> contained inside the mirror repository.
> 
> But our files in SVN have never contained those kinds of failed merge
> reports. Does hgsvnpull just do its work by checking out the pre-state,
> applying the patch gotten by doing "svn diff -rM:N", then commit the
> result?
> 

I think it just doesn an svn up -r for each revision, which introduces 
changes on the path you are converting.


> Should I not be using hgpullsvn?  Is it broken?  Is there a safer way to mirror?
> 

We've used hgsvn to convert part of a subversion repository with more 
than 8000 revisions without any problems. I did a diff of the converted 
repo and the original and they were the same.



> Sean
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