Forums : Technical Issue Help
Dear Open Hub Users,
We’re excited to announce that we will be moving the Open Hub Forum to
https://community.blackduck.com/s/black-duck-open-hub.
Beginning immediately, users can head over,
register,
get technical help and discuss issue pertinent to the Open Hub. Registered users can also subscribe to Open Hub announcements here.
On May 1, 2020, we will be freezing https://www.openhub.net/forums and users will not be able to create new discussions. If you have any questions and concerns, please email us at
[email protected]
jQuery UI Project History
@rdworth --
Unfortunately the Ohloh Subversion importer doesn't yet have the features you need to piece together a complete history from the existing repositories. However, I believe there may be some workarounds if you have the desire and the time.
Our Subversion importer assumes that code still exists on the current HEAD, which is why you can't import the old jQuery UI history from the previous repository. We've had a suggestion to allow developers to import a specific range of commits, and allows ranges of such commits to be pieced together into a continuous history. I think this is a good idea, and if we ever find the time, I think this is a reasonable possibility.
Outside of the Ohloh constraints, if you are willing to get your hands dirty, you may be able to build a completely new repository which contains both the old and the new Subversion history in one continuous chain.
This would require a bit of Git magic. First I'd convert the old jQuery UI history into a Git repository, and then I'd feed the commits from the new repository on top of that. This should give a complete, continuous history of jQuery UI, which you could then either keep as a Git repository or convert back into Subversion.
I admit that is a bit of speculation on my part. I'm not completely sure of all the steps this would require, and this job would probably take me personally a lot of hours of experimenting, but I think there are folks out there who have done this kind of editing.
Let me know if I can be of some help,
Robin
@robin - thanks for looking into this, and for your helpful response. Please do post an update if you ever add this capability.
If I ever have the time and/or inclination to do something like what you suggest (which sounds reasonable), I'll let you know how I make out.
- Richard
