Lifting SuRun from Subversion

Most VCS conversions are horrible, reposurgeon addresses this. This project is an attempt of lifting SuRun from its Subversion repo all the while keeping the most important aspects of its history.

PS: this also is a small-scale demo of reposurgeon, which these days has been rewritten in Go, but when I last dabbled with it was written in Python.

Preparational steps

1. use svnrdump to dump SuRun repo into, e.g. surun.svndump
2. use svnadmin create to create a local repo
3. use svnadmin load $LOCALREPOPATH < surun.svndump
4. use GNU make to have reposurgeon lift the repo contents, using the provided lift script

More hints

• git log --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=A | sort -u | tee ../files.txt to list all files that ever existed
• git log --name-only --pretty=format: | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep '\.png$' | awk '$1 ~ /1/ {$1=""; print}' | sed 's|^\s*||g' | tee ../single-commit-png-files.txt list .png files with only a single commit