Kent R. Spillner
2012-12-20 17:44:07 UTC
Howdy-
When I first imported the official Subversion repository to Git I used GitHub's import tool, but it didn't preserve git-svn metadata and it didn't save a copy of the svn-authors file it generated, so periodically sync'ing with the Subversion repository was more difficult than necessary. I manually reimported the official Subversion repository into a new Git repository and merged with the original import. Unfortunately, this means the history in the Git repo is messy (it looks like there are duplicate commits [with & without the git-svn-id metadata lines]), but it's the only way to avoid hosing downstream forks. Hopefully, the second import will make it easier to sync the two repos.
If you use the GitHub repository please let me know if you encounter any problems building from source.
Thanks in advance!
Best,
Kent
When I first imported the official Subversion repository to Git I used GitHub's import tool, but it didn't preserve git-svn metadata and it didn't save a copy of the svn-authors file it generated, so periodically sync'ing with the Subversion repository was more difficult than necessary. I manually reimported the official Subversion repository into a new Git repository and merged with the original import. Unfortunately, this means the history in the Git repo is messy (it looks like there are duplicate commits [with & without the git-svn-id metadata lines]), but it's the only way to avoid hosing downstream forks. Hopefully, the second import will make it easier to sync the two repos.
If you use the GitHub repository please let me know if you encounter any problems building from source.
Thanks in advance!
Best,
Kent