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How is the age of an SVN repository calculated?
I'm looking at the ACE project (http://www.ohloh.net/projects/3533) and it says that the repository is about 1 year old, which is probably accurate. However, it was switched over from CVS, which went back much further.
When I do the following:
svn log svn://svn.dre.vanderbilt.edu/DOC/ACE/trunk/ACE/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-93
I see that this file goes back to the year 2001.
r40470 | schmidt | 2001-07-02 13:43:26 -0500 (Mon, 02 Jul 2001) | 2 lines
So, are these commits not counted in the age of a project?
Hi Chad,
You've just been bitten by a severe limitation in our Subversion importer -- we can't follow Subversion history if it crosses a branching operation or a directory rename.
It looks like this repository had a directory reorganization on 2006-07-24, at which point Ohloh loses the trail.
We use the --stop-on-copy option when we fetch the Subversion log. Try it and you'll see your repository the way Ohloh sees it.
A lot of projects are getting burned by this, but I don't think there is a workaround. It's on our to-do list.
Robin
