hg convert vs. strange svn repo...

[Greg Ward]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Ryan C. Gordon <icculus at icculus.org> wrote:
> So how do I untangle this thing? Is this a bug in hg convert, or is it doing
> the right thing with my wrong data? In any case, is there a reasonable way
> to coerce hg convert to work with this, or a reasonable way to manipulate a
> dump of the svn repo into a form that Mercurial would be more happy to
> parse?

hg's svn converter assumes the standard /trunk, /branches, /tags
layout.  Apparently that applies at every input revision, so it does
indeed get confused by your /trunk-less revision(s).

Two ideas:

1) use svn's dump-and-filter tools to magically alter your svn history
into something that 'hg convert' can handle
2) improve hg convert's handling of oddball svn repositories

#2 is a bigger pill to swallow, but more people will benefit in the
long run.  ;-)

Greg