I wanted to make it possible to keep a Mercurial (Hg) repository in sync with a series of Subversion (SVN) source repositories. Due to the way certain Subversion repositories are structured it is not always convenient to have a common Mercurial and Subversion root. I am actually using Mercurial to coalesce a collection of related modules into a single checkout for an agile development team. Consequently, the Python hgsvn scripts are unworkable for the scenario I am in. So I rolled my own hgsvn in Erlang and it was surprisingly easy to do.
The Erlang hgsvn module follows this process:
Using Erlang for this made the code very straight-forward. I previously attempted this in Groovy and beyond failing to get it working I found the code incredibly difficult to understand without detailed comments.
To run this code you would invoke the following command in the root of a Subversion working copy in your Mercurial repository:
erl -pa <path to hgsvn.beam parent dir> -noshell -s hgsvn -s init stop
You can also specify a set of related repositories (ex: from a common server) and update them together in revision order:
erl -pa <path to hgsvn.beam parent dir> -noshell -s hgsvn -s init stop -repo_set path/to/repo1 path/to/repo2
You can even specify multiple sets of related repositories and update them set by set in revision order:
erl -pa <path to hgsvn.beam parent dir> -noshell -s hgsvn -s init stop -repo_set path/to/repo1 path/to/repo2 -repo_set path/to/repo3 -repo_set path/to/repo4
Further to that you can specify stop revisions for each repository in a set:
erl -pa <path to hgsvn.beam parent dir> -noshell -s hgsvn -s init stop -repo_set path/to/repo1 path/to/repo2 -stop_set 1023 1432
If you specify a stop_set for one repo_set you must provide one for every repo_set. It is perfectly workable to put nothing after the -repo_set as hgsvn will interpret that to mean HEAD for every repository in the repo_set.
You can have an unlimited number of repository sets and an unlimited number of Subversion paths per repository set.This code was developed to work with the output format from Subversion 1.4.4 (r25188) on Mac OS X 10.5 and Subversion 1.4.6 (r28521) on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. It should work with any 1.4.x Subversion though. Make sure to post any issues here as comments (please include the output of svn info).
UPDATE (2008/07/15): now handles case where one or more SVN WCs have no new changes
UPDATE (2008/07/15): adds SVN watcher that automatically collects changes (ex: -watch 30min)
UPDATE (2008/08/01): this is now erlang_hgsvn on GitHub