# The devel/reposurgeon port

## reposurgeon-3.42p0 – tool for editing version-control repository history

## Description

    'reposurgeon' enables risky operations that version-control systems
    don't want to let you do, such as (a) editing past comments and metadata,
    (b) excising commits, (c) coalescing commits, and (d) removing files and
    subtrees from repo history. The original motivation for 'reposurgeon'
    was to clean up artifacts created by repository conversions.

    'reposurgeon' is also useful for scripting very high-quality conversions
    from Subversion.  It is better than 'git-svn' at tag lifting,
    automatically cleaning up 'cvs2svn' conversion artifacts, dealing with
    nonstandard repository layouts, recognizing branch merges, handling
    mixed-branch commits, and generally at coping with Subversion's many
    odd corner cases.  Normally Subversion repos should be analyzed at a
    rate of upwards of ten thousand commits per minute.

    'repodiffer' is a program that reports differences between repository
    histories. It uses a 'diff(1)'-like algorithm to identify spans of
    identical revisions, and to pick out revisions that have been
    changed or deleted or inserted. It may be useful for comparing the
    output of different repository-conversion tools in detail.

    Another auxiliary program, 'repotool', performs various useful
    operations such as checkouts and tag listing in a VCS-independent
    manner.  Yet another, 'repomapper', assists in automatically preparing
    contributor maps of CVS and SVN repositories.

    The 'repocutter' program is available for some specialized operations on
    Subversion dumpfiles; it may be useful in extracting portions of
    particularly gnarly Subversion repositories for conversion witth
    reposurgeon.

    A 'patchpipe' program supports converting among version-control patch
    formats.

    This distribution supports a generic conversion workflow using these
    tools, and includes the DVCS Migration Guide that describes how to use it.

WWW: http://www.catb.org/esr/reposurgeon/

Categories:
  devel lang/python

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- archivers/xz
- devel/gmake
- lang/cython
- lang/python/2.7
- textproc/asciidoc
- textproc/xmlto

## Run dependencies

- lang/python/2.7