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Hi,
I noticed that the repository tracker doesn't cope with deleted/moved directories very well, at least that's the case for Subversion. It simply discards history of a deleted directory, which has happened on a project I follow which has recently switched to Git, didn't import the history into the new repository and deleted the directory from the old one. It now looks like the project has just been started. Is there a way to freeze an enlisted repository at some point in history, i.e. a certian revision, maybe?
Best regards
Moritz
Whoops, I just noticed that I entered quite a bogus title there, sorry, it seems I can't edit it anymore now :(
Hi Moritz,
Sadly, Ohloh doesn't have the ability to freeze
a snapshot of development history. We require that the source control repository be publicly reachable at all times, and that the log of its most recent revision connects continuously back through the project history.
If the Subversion repository is not reachable at all, then there aren't many options for Ohloh.
If the Subversion repository is still reachable via the web, but the main development directory has been deleted, there is a possible workaround. You could create a new Subversion branch that forks the old development directory, forking from a revision number just before the directory was deleted. This would expose the entire project history on the branch, and Ohloh could track the branch. It's important that the log for this branch show the entire history, because Ohloh relies on the log as the basis for the report.
If you are able to create such a branch, let me know, and we can get to work processing it.
Thanks,
Robin
