From: Andreas Z. <zw...@ki...> - 2015-07-30 11:30:22
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 22.07.2015 um 03:30 schrieb Vijay Saraswat: > We believe we will be able to carry history over. > > On 7/21/15 9:18 PM, Bard Bloom wrote: ... >> How much information will you lose moving to git? Or does the >> translation somehow carry history onwards? git-svn is a nice svn client and also does the conversion. So, you can easily try out git without breaking anything. You could also start with a git mirror at first and keep the svn. Nevertheless, there are some pitfalls for a "great" conversion, though. For example, svn has usernames, where git uses name+email pairs. It could be a good idea to "enrich" or "normalize" git history with a few scripts after the final conversion. Since changing history in git is not something you do in a public repository, it needs to be done before it goes live. We also split the One Big Svn Repo into multiple git repos, which hold together via git-submodule. I'm not sure if that would be a good idea for X10, though. In libfirm [0], the last svn revision r28454 is now git commit ed85eaaf. [0] http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/git/libfirm/ - -- Andreas Zwinkau KIT IPD Snelting Web: http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/personhp/andreas_zwinkau.php -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVugc6AAoJEKm3M8a3pi2iq1cH/2ij8tvKmJXCiHa8uNQSWyK1 oN9FUcnnMNd0NtsjU8ogrAsclFuWmXNKwEHK/KVPDhh04zkEAQzQdrErG7NYlVZi t8R92TXspvwDEgcc5dzZKrO0CNiBncdIcd34c/WVTToGeSSg2Selu6VfwPJ8rLqY IB+KmKxl01vrmPJen2Gh62Ue0DzaJUwHpm7TW8kHx7pjQ6OX/pA+orjPPMPl+xGh t0AUoIgeyWwjvg3CbilpBUWnaWRp5g9RFRQX9lMr5asKH1tEju/CDLIG08oEg9a1 6WEPCIQq0VXfoBPxkdlkMWqpL7UvoqZoPghGceU6FDxxmTtWW0J6sAs9/UCgnW0= =Vle6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |