Re: Possible Transition from SVN to Git?

[Jon Dowland <lists@alcopop.org>]

On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 02:32:30PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Of course, there are downsides to doing that. It's harder
> to check everything out, and maintainers would have to
> know how to use two revision control systems.

Realistically, how often do people check everything out?
I've had a full check-out lying around for the last couple
of months and used it for I think only two migrations
(duplicating the Homepage: field from the description to a
proper control field; and documenting a change someone else
did once). When I did the first one, I felt that for how
often it was necessary, it would be relatively easy to do
something like

	svn ls $REPO |
	<maybe some cleanup to end up with distinct names> |
	while read name; do 
		svn co $REPO/$name
	done

Who maintains a full check-out and actively uses it?


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Jon Dowland