SVN sync -- full refresh every time?

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Mike Laughton

11 months ago

Hi,

I made some manual tweaks to the early Subversion history of my project, libdmtx, so that ohloh can show all revisions back to 2005-2006.

I reimported the updated repository to SourceForge.net and everything looks fine, but after several successful syncs ohloh still shows my project to be 7 months old (which is when I switched from CVS to SVN). I have been careful to maintain sequential dates and a consistent directory structure (/trunk) throughout the commit history.

My question: Does the ohloh SVN sync process do a full refresh of history every time, or is it only adding on small deltas that include the last few revisions? If full, I might need a hint as to where the sync process is dropping my old (> 7 months ago) commits.

Thanks! Mike (mblaughton)


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Robin Luckey

11 months ago

Hi Mike,

Ohloh pulls only the incremental updates. If you've changed the back history of the repository, we'll have to do a clean reimport of the entire project.

I've started the fresh import.

Thanks, Robin


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Mike Laughton

11 months ago

Thanks for the speedy and helpful response, Robin! I'm sure you hear it all the time, but your attention to user questions is a big factor in why ohloh works so well. Other services (both free and paid) should be taking notes. Keep up the great work!


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Robin Luckey

11 months ago

Hi Mike,

The download completed, and we now show a commit history dating back to 2005-11-22.

Thanks for the kind words! Let me know if there's any more trouble.

Thanks, Robin