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What's the difference between creating a branch from a svn repository and svn-import

Asked by felipelavinz

Perhaps it's just a theoretical question, but I was just wondering... what's the difference between creating a branch or checkout from a subversion repository and using svn-import?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell both of these would import all of the repository history, so I don't really get the difference between the two of them. I certainly didn't got it clearer after reading the documentation on bzr-svn: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/beta/en/user-guide/svn_plugin.html#using-a-central-repository-mirror (it says how to use the command, but it's note very clear on why to use one or the other).

Does anybody have any clue about this?

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Best Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) said : 		#1

On Thu 03 Nov 2011 04:30:59 CET, felipelavinz wrote:
> New question #177353 on Bazaar Subversion Plugin:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr-svn/+question/177353
>
> Perhaps it's just a theoretical question, but I was just wondering... what's the difference between creating a branch or checkout from a subversion repository and using svn-import?

svn-import imports all branches in a repository. bzr branch just
imports a single branch (e.g. trunk, branches/foo or whatever you
specify).

Cheers,

Jelmer

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felipelavinz (felipe-lavin) said : 		#2

Thanks for your answer!

If the svn repository it's not organized in trunk+tags+branches, they would be equivalent?

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Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer) said : 		#3

yep

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felipelavinz (felipe-lavin) said : 		#4

Thanks Jelmer Vernooij, that solved my question.