[Bioperl-l] Bioperl partitioning (was Re: SVN and ...Re: Perltidy)

[George Hartzell]

Steve Chervitz writes:
 > On 6/16/07, Jason Stajich <jason at bioperl.org> wrote:
 > > [...]
 > > Just to say I already went through all the steps of running cvs2svn
 > > myself and had problems gathering back out the branches and all the
 > > tags when I tried it.  If you want to start with a smaller repository
 > > like bioperl-network or bioperl-db as the initial cvs2svn conversion
 > > script took quite a long time to run on bioperl-live.
 > 
 > Might this been a good opportunity to investigate partitioning
 > bioperl-live into sub-repositories? [...]

I'd say that the time to do this kind of rearrangement would be
*after* the svn repo's set up.  That way you'll be able to track stuff
back through to the beginning of time.

g.