Subversion is a widely used VCS (version control system). However, there a more players out there, like Bazaar (bzr). For example, Ubuntu wans to switch to this VCS in the near future.
I’ve got a svn account on Unfuddle. But bzr also works with ordinary ftp and ssh accounts, and thus I wanted to switch to bzr. But how can I move my files from my svn to bzr?
You want to move your project ‘PROJECT’. Use the terminal for the following (Linux) commands. (Attention: your only copying the last revision to bzr.)
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Download eerst je subversion files:
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mkdir PROJECT bzr init-repo PROJECT cd PROJECT bzr svn-import http://
/my_svn I use bzr with the ‘svn-import’ module. Of course, you can also use svn checkout.
- Remove the traces to the old svn repository. If you just used svn checkout, you have to remove other maps or files.
cd my_svn rm -rf .bzr
- Rename your directory to a logical name (mine didn’t had one). I will rename my own branch to ‘trunk’:
cd .. mv my_svn/ trunk/ bzr init ftp://ftp.mysite.nl/PROJECT cd trunk bzr add bzr commit -m "Initial commit"
If you want to checkout on another location, use the command:
bzr co ftp://ftp.mysite.nl/PROJECT/trunk
Tags: bazaar, subversion, ubuntu