Set up some plumbing: teach the svndump lib to pass a file descriptor
number to the fast_export lib, representing where cat-blob/ls
responses can be read from, and add a get_response_line helper
function to the fast_export lib to read a line from that file.
Unfortunately this means that svn-fe needs file descriptor 3 to be
redirected from somewhere (preferrably the cat-blob stream of a
fast-import backend); otherwise it will fail:
$ svndump <path> | svn-fe
fatal: cannot read from file descriptor 3: Bad file descriptor
For the moment, "svn-fe 3</dev/null" works as a workaround but it
will not work for very long. A fast-import backend that can retrieve
old commits is needed in order to be able to fulfill svn
"Node-copyfrom-rev" requests that refer to revs from a previous run.
[jn: with new change description]
Based-on-patch-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
svn-fe is young and some coming cleanups might involve backward
incompatible UI changes. Add some words of warning to the manual so
early adopters that are not following the project closely don't get
burned.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Those in the know would notice that dump file format version 2
means "svnadmin dump --no-deltas", but for the rest of us, an
explicit reminder is useful.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The svn-fe example does not litter the working directory with
.bin files any more (hoorah!).
The permissive error handling implies a known bug. We should
be flagging iffy input and, even if we continue, reporting it
on exit.
Cc: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The svn-fe tool takes a Subversion dump file as input and produces
a fast-import stream as output. This can be useful as a low-level
tool in building other importers, or for debugging the vcs-svn
library.
make svn-fe
make svn-fe.1
to test.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
