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How to solve the "Short source control history" false assertion?
Hi,
The XWiki project started in 2003. However since we've done several SVN refactorings of structure it only shows code for the last 5 months. So the project appears relatively new and ohloh even says Short source control history
! In addition committers are shown as having contributed only for the past 5 months when most of them have been coding on XWiki for the past 3 years... :(
Is there any way I can tell Ohloh about XWiki's history? Should I enlist the old SVN URLs?
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi Vincent,
If your old SVN URLs still exist, then it would probably be OK to add these old URLs to the Ohloh project. You may end up double-counting your code (all the code in the old URLs + all the code in the new URLs), but at least you'd have all your commits showing.
However, if your old URLs don't actually exist anymore (as would be the case if you use Subversion features to move or rename the old directories), then Ohloh will be unable to import them. The URLs have to exist today for Ohloh to find them.
There may not be any workaround for you. Ohloh is unable to follow file and directory histories past move or rename events. This is a real problem for a lot of projects, and I'm dying to get this fixed. However, it's what we call non-trivial
. We've been putting in the groundwork for a fix, so we're on the way, but it will take us a while to get it done.
Yes, the old URLs don't exist anymore since there were svn moves...
I remember talking to someone at Ohloh some months ago (was it a year ago?) about this and the inability for ohloh for handle this use case. At the time it was a planned feature so I was checking to see if it had been implemented. Too bad it hasn't but I understand you guys have been busy. Let's hope you find the time to work on this :)
Thanks
-Vincent