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author | Pulkit Goyal <pulkit@yandex-team.ru> |
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date | Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:28:39 +0300 |
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Basic Use --------- Converting a Subversion repository to Mercurial with hgsubversion is done by cloning it. Subversion repositories are specified using the same, regular URL syntax that Subversion uses. hgsubversion accepts URIs such as the following:: http://user:sekrit@example.com/repo https://user@example.com/repo svn://example.com/repo svn+ssh://example.com/repo file:///tmp/repo In the case of the two first schemas, HTTP and HTTPS, the repository is first treated as a Mercurial repository, and a Subversion pull attempted should it fail. As this can be particularly annoying for repositories that require authentication, such repositories may also specified using a svn+http or svn+https schema. To create a new Mercurial clone, you can use a command such as the following:: $ hg clone <repository URI> [destination] Or with a real example:: $ hg clone http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn nose-hg Please note that there are two slightly different ways of cloning repositories: The most common desire is to have the full history of a repository, including all its tags and branches. In such cases you should clone from one level above trunk, as in the example above. This is known as `standard layout`, and works with repositories that use the conventional ``trunk``, ``tags`` and ``branches`` directories. By default, hgsubversion will use this layout whenever it finds any of these directories at the specified directory on the server. Standard layout also supports alternate names for the ``branches`` directory and multiple tags locations. Finally, Standard Layout supports selecting a subdirectory relative to ``trunk``, and each branch and tag dir. This is useful if you have a single ``trunk``, ``branches``, and ``tags`` with several projects inside, and you wish to import only a single project. If you instead want to clone just a single directory or branch, clone the specific directory path. In the example above, to get *only* trunk, you would issue ``hg clone http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn/trunk nose-trunk``. This works with any directory with a Subversion repository, and is known as a single directory clone. Normally, converted changesets will be marked as belonging to the ``default`` branch, but this can be changed by using the ``-b/--branch`` option. To force single directory clone, use hgsubversion.layout option (see below for detailed help) :: $ hg clone --layout single svn+http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn nose-hg Finally, if you want to clone two or more directores as separate branches, use the custom layout. See the documentation below for the ``hgsubversionbranch.*`` configuration for detailed help. Pulling new revisions into an already-converted repository is the same as from any other Mercurial source. Within the first example above, the following three commands are all equivalent:: $ hg pull $ hg pull default $ hg pull http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn Sometimes, past repository history is of little or no interest, and all one wants is to start from today and work forward. Using ``--startrev HEAD`` causes the initial clone to only convert the latest revision; later pulls will convert all subsequent revisions. Please note that this only works for single-directory clones:: $ hg clone --startrev HEAD http://python-nose.googlecode.com/svn/trunk nose-hg Finding and displaying Subversion revisions ------------------------------------------- For revealing the relationship between Mercurial changesets and Subversion revisions, hgsubversion provides three template keywords: :svnrev: Expanded to the original Subversion revision number. :svnpath: The path within the repository that the changeset represents. :svnuuid: The Universally Unique Identifier of the Subversion repository. An example:: $ hg log --template='{rev}:{node|short} {author|user}\nsvn: {svnrev}\n' For finding changesets from Subversion, hgsubversion extends revsets to provide two new selectors: :fromsvn: Select changesets that originate from Subversion. Takes no arguments. :svnrev: Select changesets that originate in a specific Subversion revision. Takes a revision argument. For example:: $ hg log -r 'fromsvn()' $ hg log -r 'svnrev(500)' See ``hg help revsets`` for details. Support for externals --------------------- Subversion externals conversion is implemented for standard layouts. Using .hgsvnexternals (default mode) ==================================== .hgsvnexternals has been implemented before Mercurial supported proper subrepositories. Externals as subrepositories should now be preferred as they offer almost all .hgsvnexternals features with the benefit of a better integration with Mercurial commands. ``svn:externals`` properties are serialized into a single ``.hgsvnexternals`` file having the following syntax:: [.] common1 http://path/to/external/svn/repo1 ...additional svn:externals properties lines... [dir2] common2 -r123 http://path/to/external/svn/repo2 ...additional svn:externals properties lines... A header line in brackets specifies the directory the property applies to, where '.' indicates the project root directory. The property content follows the header, with every content line being prefixed by a single space. Note that the property lines have a format identical to svn:externals properties as used in Subversion, and do not support the hgsubversion extended svn+http:// URL format. Issuing the command ``hg svn updateexternals`` with the ``.hgsvnexternals`` example above would fetch the latest revision of `repo1` into the subdirectory `./common1`, and revision 123 of `repo2` into `dir2/common2`. Note that ``.hgsvnexternals`` must be tracked by Mercurial before this will work. If ``.hgsvnexternals`` is created or changed, it will not be pushed to the related Subversion repository, but its contents **will** be used to update ``svn:externals`` properties on the related Subversion repository. Alternatively, one can use the ``hgsubversion.externals`` in hgrc to specify ``subrepos`` as the externals mode. In this mode, ``.hgsub`` and ``.hgsubstate`` files will be used instead of ``.hgsvnexternals``. Using Subrepositories ===================== Set: [hgsubversion] externals = subrepos to enable this mode. ``svn:externals`` properties are serialized into the subrepositories metadata files, ``.hgsub`` and ``.hgsubstate``. The following ``svn:externals`` entry: -r23 ^/externals/project1 deps/project1 set on the "subdir" directory becomes: (.hgsub) subdir/deps/project1 = [hgsubversion] subdir:-r{REV} ^/externals/project1 deps/project1 (.hgsubstate) 23 subdir/deps/project1 At this point everything works like a regular svn subrepository. The right part of the .hgsub entry reads like: TARGETDIR:REWRITTEN_EXTERNAL_DEFINITION where REWRITTEN_EXTERNAL_DEFINITION is like the original definition with the revision identifier replaced with {REV}. This mode has the following limitations: * "hgsubversion" subrepositories require hgsubversion extension to be available. To operate transparently on ``svn:externals`` we have to stay as close as possible to their original property format. Besides, relative externals require a parent subversion repository to be resolved while stock Mercurial only supports absolute subversion paths. * Leading or trailing whitespaces in the external definitions are lost * Leading or trailing whitespaces in the target directory are lost * The external definition should not contain {REV} * Unversioned definitions are pulled but the behaviour upon update/merge is not clearly defined. We tried to preserve the .hgsubstate as "HEAD" but the subrepository will probably not be updated when the hg repository is updated. Given subrepositories were designed not to support unversioned dependencies, this is unlikely to be fixed. * .hgsub and .hgsubstate are currently overwritten and non-[hgsubversion] subrepos entries are lost. This could be fixed by editing these files more carefully. Limitations ----------- Currently, pushing to Subversion destroys the original changesets and replaces them with new ones converted from the resulting commits. Due to the intricacies of Subversion semantics, these converted changesets may differ in subtle ways from the original Mercurial changesets. For example, the commit date almost always changes. This makes hgsubversion unsuitable for use as a two-way bridge. When converting from Subversion, hgsubversion does not recognize merge-info, and does not create merges based on it. Similarly, Mercurial merges cannot be pushed to Subversion. Changesets that create tags cannot be pushed to Subversion, as support for creating Subversion tags has not yet been implemented. Standard layout does not work with repositories that use unconventional layouts. Thus, only single directory clones can be made of such repositories. When interacting with Subversion, hgsubversion relies on information about the previously converted changesets. This information will not be updated if pushing or pulling converted changesets to or from any other source. To regenerate the stored metadata, run ``hg svn rebuildmeta [URI]``. This must also be done if any converted changesets are ever removed from the repository. Under certain circumstances a long-running conversion can leak substantial amounts of memory, on the order of 100MB per 1000 converted revisions. The leaks appear to be persistent and unavoidable using the SWIG bindings. When using the new experimental Subvertpy bindings, leaks have only been observed accessing FSFS repositories over the file protocol. Should the initial clone fail with an error, Mercurial will delete the entire repository, including any revisions successfully converted. This can be particularly undesirable for long-running clones. In these cases, we suggest using the ``-r/--rev`` option to only clone a few revisions initially. After that, an ``hg pull`` in the cloned repository will be perfectly safe. It is not possible to interact with more than one Subversion repository per Mercurial clone. Please note that this also applies to more than one path within the same Subversion repository. Mercurial does not track directories, and as a result, any empty directories in Subversion cannot be represented in the resulting Mercurial repository. Externals support requires that the ``svn`` command line utility is available. In addition, externals support has been disabled for single directory clones, due to known bugs. Advanced Configuration ---------------------- The operation of hgsubversion can be customized by the following configuration settings: ``hgsubversion.authormap`` Path to a file for mapping usernames from Subversion to Mercurial. For example:: joe = Joe User <joe@example.com> Some Subversion conversion tools create revisions without specifying an author. Such author names are mapped to ``(no author)``, similar to how ``svn log`` will display them. ``hgsubversion.defaulthost`` This option specifies the hostname to append to unmapped Subversion usernames. The default is to append the UUID of the Subversion repository as a hostname. That is, an author of ``bob`` may be mapped to ``bob@0b1d8996-7ded-4192-9199-38e2bec458fb``. If this option set to an empty string, the Subversion authors will be used with no hostname component. ``hgsubversion.defaultmessage`` This option selects what to substitute for an empty log message. The default is to substitute three dots, or ``...``. ``hgsubversion.defaultauthors`` Setting this boolean option to false will cause hgsubversion to abort a conversion if a revision has an author not listed in the author map. ``hgsubversion.branch`` Mark converted changesets as belonging to this branch or, if unspecified, ``default``. Please note that this option is not supported for standard layout clones. ``hgsubversion.branchmap`` Path to a file for changing branch names during the conversion from Subversion to Mercurial. ``hgsubversion.branchdir`` Specifies the subdirectory to look for branches under. The default is ``branches``. This option has no effect for single-directory clones. ``hgsubversion.infix`` Specifies a path to strip between relative to the trunk/branch/tag root as the mercurial root. This can be used to import a single sub-project when you have several sub-projects under a single trunk/branches/tags layout in subversion. ``hgsubversion.filemap`` Path to a file for filtering files during the conversion. Files may either be included or excluded. See the documentation for ``hg convert`` for more information on filemaps. ``hgsubversion.filestoresize`` Maximum amount of temporary edited files data to be kept in memory, in megabytes. The replay and stupid mode pull data by retrieving delta information from the subversion repository and applying it on known files data. Since the order of file edits is driven by the subversion delta information order, edited files cannot be committed immediately and are kept until all of them have been processed for each changeset. ``filestoresize`` defines the maximum amount of files data to be kept in memory before falling back to storing them in a temporary directory. This setting is important with repositories containing many files or large ones as both the application of deltas and Mercurial commit process require the whole file data to be available in memory. By limiting the amount of temporary data kept in memory, larger files can be retrieved, at the price of slower disk operations. Set it to a negative value to disable the fallback behaviour and keep everything in memory. Default to 200. ``hgsubversion.username``, ``hgsubversion.password`` Set the username or password for accessing Subversion repositories. ``hgsubversion.password_stores`` List of methods to use for storing passwords (similar to the option of the same name in the subversion configuration files). Default is ``gnome_keyring,keychain,kwallet,windows``. Password stores can be disabled completely by setting this to an empty value. .. NOTE:: Password stores are only supported with the SWIG bindings. ``hgsubversion.revmapimpl`` Set the revision map implementation. Default is ``plain``, which works well for small repos. ``sqlite`` is a sqlite based implementation that works better for large repos with a lot of revisions. If it is set to an implementation different from what the repo is using, a migration will run automatically when the revision map is accessed. ``hgsubversion.sqlitepragmas`` A list of sqlite PRAGMA statements to tweak sqlite. Each item should be in the format ``key=value`` without ``PRAGMA``, or spaces, or quotation marks. Refer to https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html for possible options. For example, setting it to ``synchronous=0, journal_mode=memory`` will give you better performance at the cost of possible database corruption. ``hgsubversion.stupid`` Setting this boolean option to true will force using a slower method for pulling revisions from Subversion. This method is compatible with servers using very old versions of Subversion, and hgsubversion falls back to it when necessary. ``hgsubversion.externals`` Set to ``subrepos`` to switch to subrepos-based externals support. Default is ``svnexternals``, which uses a custom hgsubversion-specific format and works on older versions of Mercurial. Use ``ignore`` to avoid converting externals. The following options only have an effect on the initial clone of a repository: ``hgsubversion.layout`` Set the layout of the repository. ``standard`` assumes a normal trunk/branches/tags layout. ``single`` means that the entire repository is converted into a single branch. The default, ``auto``, causes hgsubversion to assume a standard layout if any of trunk, branches, or tags exist within the specified directory on the server. ``custom`` causes hgsubversion to read the ``hgsubversionbranch`` config section to determine the repository layout. ``hgsubversion.startrev`` Convert Subversion revisions starting at the one specified, either an integer revision or ``HEAD``; ``HEAD`` causes only the latest revision to be pulled. The default is to pull everything. ``hgsubversion.tagpaths`` Specifies one or more paths in the Subversion repository that contain tags. The default is to only look in ``tags``. This option has no effect for single-directory clones. ``hgsubversion.unsafeskip`` A space or comma separated list of Subversion revision numbers to skip over when pulling or cloning. This can be useful for troublesome commits, such as someone accidentally deleting trunk and then restoring it. (In delete-and-restore cases, you may also need to clone or pull in multiple steps, to help hgsubversion track history correctly.) NOTE: this option is dangerous. Careless use can make it impossible to pull later Subversion revisions cleanly, e.g. if the content of a file depends on changes made in a skipped rev. Skipping a rev may also prevent future invocations of ``hg svn verify`` from succeeding (if the contents of the Mercurial repo become out of step with the contents of the Subversion repo). If you use this option, be sure to carefully check the result of a pull afterwards. ``hgsubversionbranch.*`` Use this config section with the custom layout to specify a cusomt mapping of subversion path to Mercurial branch. This is useful if your layout is substantially different from the standard trunk/branches/tags layout and/or you are only interested in a few branches. Example config that pulls in trunk as the default branch, personal/alice as the alice branch, and releases/2.0/2.7 as release-2.7:: [hgsubversionbranch] default = trunk alice = personal/alice release-2.7 = releases/2.0/2.7 Note that it is an error to specify more than one branch for a given path, or to sepecify nested paths (e.g. releases/2.0 and releases/2.0/2.7) Please note that some of these options may be specified as command line options as well, and when done so, will override the configuration. If an authormap, filemap or branchmap is specified, its contents will be read and stored for use in future pulls. Finally, the following environment variables can be used for testing a deployment of hgsubversion: ``HGSUBVERSION_BINDINGS`` By default, hgsubversion will use Subvertpy, but fall back to the SWIG bindings. Set this variable to either ``SWIG`` or ``Subvertpy`` (case- insensitive) to force that set of bindings.