Re: Migration from CVS to Subversion

On Saturday 07 March 2009 07:02:12 Stelios Bounanos wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 6 Mar 2009 16:23:08 -0600, Nate Bargmann
> >>>>> <n0nb <at> bluevalley.net> said:
> >
> > I saw that last week in an email from SF.net.  I wouldn't have been
> > opposed to moving straight to Git since I have to (re)learn a new SCM
> > anyway.  :D  I do think that SVN is a huge improvement over CVS based on
> > what little I was able to read this morning.
> >
> > Am I misreading some Google hits, but is there some method of cross
> > functionality between SVN and Git, one way or both way?
>
> Yes, git-svn can clone a subversion tree and convert it to a git tree.
> It can work in both directions but needs to store metadata.  It works
> better than git-cvsimport, and becomes preferable to plain svn as soon
> as one becomes familiar with git...
>
> For a one-off conversion to git you would use it like so:
>
> git svn clone --stdlayout --no-metadata --authors-file=authors
> http://hamlib.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hamlib hamlib.git

Thanks for the info, Stelios.

> The hamlib.git tree will then contain all the subversion bits (trunk,
> branches, tags) and still be the same size, i.e. smaller than the svn
> trunk checkout   I wrote a near-complete (who is mardigras?) authors
> file for the svn->git author mapping; see attachment.

mardigras shows two commits, both on February 28, 2007.  No associated email 
address can be found by me, so I temporarily removed commit access for that 
account.  That user shows a real name of Spaceman Spiff (a Calvin and Hobbs 
fan, evidently), so if (s)he shows up again we can vet a bit more information 
for copyright purposes.

However, on further research, I think that mardigras is Kent Hill, AD7I, but 
I'm not 100% sure.  If that matches, Kent can contact me offlist and I'll 
straighten things out.

73, de Nate >>

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