migration from svn to git

[David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca>]

>>>>> "Sylvestre" == Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@inria.fr> writes:


    Sylvestre> If there is no strong objections, I will migrate the
    Sylvestre> current svn to git.

I have migrated sketch, vrr, and bibutils to git. Here a little script
I used.  Hopefully those new to git are not too horrified; one does
not need this kind of hackery in normal use.  The messy bit is to
transition from a package with only a /debian dir, to one with a full
upstream source compatible with git-buildpackage.

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#!/bin/sh
package=bibutils
version=3.40
mkdir $package
cd $package
git-svn init --stdlayout --no-metadata svn://svn.debian.org/debian-science/$package
git-svn fetch
# drop upstream branch from svn
git-branch -d -r upstream

# create a new upstream branch based on recipe from 
# http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2008/03/git-buildpackage_from_debian-only_to_debian+upstream/ 
#
git-symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/upstream
git rm --cached -r .
git commit --allow-empty -m 'initial upstream branch'
git checkout -f master
git merge upstream
git-import-orig --pristine-tar --no-dch ../tarballs/${package}_${version}.orig.tar.gz

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from the parent directory, I ran 

git clone --bare $package $package.git
rsync -cavz $package.git bremner-guest@alioth.debian.org:/git/debian-science/packages

on alioth:

cd /git/debian/science/packages/$package.git
git --bare init --shared
chmod 755 hooks/post-update
git-update-server-info