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Chia-liang Kao wrote: > I think the VCP support in svk/SVN::Mirror is now ready for mirroring > from Perforce. If you have sorted out the access bit to perl depot > maybe you'd like to start testing, and I'm all for helping out. Sarathy has agreed to let me test this and has installed my SSH key. I haven't had a chance to get back to trying it, though. I don't think it will be tonight (I have a pounding headache), but I will try and set up a run tomorrow night. One thing that will need to be addressed is that there were certain binary files which were part of historical Perl releases which were not added to the Perforce repository. Perl::Repository::APC contains these files (actually right in its source code), so we have access to them. In order to fully mirror the history of Perl, the Perforce repository must be read in blocks of revisions, and the few odd binary files loaded in at the appropriate time. I'll need to extract that information out of P::R::APC and script that up to load the binaries at the right points. So it isn't going to be a single load, unfortunately. Thanks for svk, BTW. I don't know how I ever managed without it. I am juggling multiple patches for both Subversion and Perl itself, and I couldn't do it nearly as well with any other tool! John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747Thread Previous