hiya,
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:29:08PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> I tried to put together a guide[1] to convert SVN repo to Git hosted on Alioth.
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#ConvertaSVNAliothrepositorytoGit
>
> Since I'm not that expert in Git, I'd like to ask you for its review.
> The conversion and all other steps are working, but there's room for
> improvement, I think.
it's really useful info! one thing that might be worth mentioning wrt the
tag conversion:
for t in `git branch -r | grep 'tags/' | sed s_tags/__` ; do
git tag $t tags/$t^
git branch -d -r tags/$t
done
the use of "^" is something i hadn't thought of which uses the parent
(i.e. pre-copy) commit which can then still be associated with a
development branch instead of a headless commit.
however, it makes the assumption that no further changes have been done on
a tag. since svn has no concept of a read-only tag, it's quite possible
(and i've seen this in the wild) that further changes are made on the
"tags/$t" branch. this would create a broken tag which is both headless
and referencing the wrong commit/state.
i have a suspicion that there's a more general way to catch this[1], perhaps
by rebasing each of these branches into a single commit before tagging
the parent[2], or maybe using git filter-branch (which is still a dark
mysterious art to me that i hope to learn soon). perhaps someone with more
than my meager level of git-fu could chime in :)
sean
[1] alternatively one could solve #501761 and i guess this'd be moot.
[2] i.e. a no-op for tags with only the "copy" commit, and the rest are
transformed into something equivalent to such a commit.
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