[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS-compatible mode for SVN? / Major annoyance with SVN revision numbers

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:32:43PM +0200, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
> 
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:04:05PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > 
> >>I've received 2 mails from ppl who want to contribute to the
> >>translation effort for the French doc.
> >>While I was trying to explain the revision tag thingie, I came to
> >>realize that at least half of the existing files still have the old
> >>CVS-style "synced with 1.xx" sync tag, which is quite useless now that
> >>we have SVN....
> >>
> >>My question is: is it possible to somehow get SVN to
> >>"emulate"/"Understand" CVS file revision numbers to say, get the diff
> >>between "old version 1.102 of faq.xml and today's"....
> > 
> > 
> > Maybe it could be done, but since I assume it affects only about 20-30
> > files I really don't think it's worth it the effort.
> 
> :-(

Basically just the French and Spanish docs, plus some console message
files.  Only the French XML docs are (somewhat) maintained, the rest
will probably basically have to be retranslated anyway..

> >>If the newcomers can't do this, I fear that they won't stick around....
> >
> >
> > Well, as the head of the translation team you will have to find out
> > which Subversion revision it is and update the text then :)
> 
> Then I'd need to know what was the initial revision number of MPlayer
> when it got online the first time after the crash. How to I do this?

I can give you the old RCS files, maybe this helps.  But since it's just
a handful of files, I'd just look at the history of the English masters
and try to find out which is the last change they contain.  This should
take you less than an hour and you only have to do it once ..

You can start by removing mail-lists.xml, which is still part of the
French translation.

Diego