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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Kevin Pilch-Bisson <ke...@pilch-bisson.net> on 2002/12/21 09:43:44 UTC
Re: [PATCH] "svnadmin dump": An optional XML output format.
On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:05:46AM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> Well, this doesn't look like a horrible amount of code, but I still
> wonder if it wouldn't be better implemented as a separate script or
> program to convert the Subversion dump format to XML and vice versa.
>
> Can you explain what motivates you to want an XML dump format?
>
I could see the advantages, but if we're going to have an XML output,
shouldn't we at least try to make it in RevML? Then it might be loadable in
other SCM's, and vice versa.
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Re: [PATCH] "svnadmin dump": An optional XML output format.
Posted by David Summers <da...@summersoft.fay.ar.us>.
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Kevin Pilch-Bisson wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 10:05:46AM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Well, this doesn't look like a horrible amount of code, but I still
> > wonder if it wouldn't be better implemented as a separate script or
> > program to convert the Subversion dump format to XML and vice versa.
> >
> > Can you explain what motivates you to want an XML dump format?
> >
> I could see the advantages, but if we're going to have an XML output,
> shouldn't we at least try to make it in RevML? Then it might be loadable in
> other SCM's, and vice versa.
>
Cool, can you give me any pointers to RevML? I'm googling for it as we
speak.
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