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Re: Converting SVN repositories to git



On 2016-01-22 00:03, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2016-01-12 13:04, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > On 2016-01-07 13:55, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > We have been talking about converting our SVN repositories to git for
> > > years, but without really doing anything. I have therefore decided to
> > > give a try, starting first with the tzdata package to understand the
> > > process.
> > > 
> > > I have first started to do some cleanup, mostly adding missing tags when
> > > possible. I then used the svn2git software [1] for that. I decided not
> > > to try to include stitching in the upstream history as there are
> > > different way to do that depending on the software to use, and we would
> > > have to take a decision first. This is the strategy used for example by
> > > the debian-kernel team, and anyway we can stitch in upstream in a second
> > > step later. The resulting repository is 1.1MB and 4.1MB with a checkout
> > > instead of the 487MB SVN checkout. It is available as a tarball [2] and
> > > also temporarily on my gitweb [3] for easy browsing.
> > 
> > I have done some small fixes both in the conversion and in the SVN.
> > You'll find the new version at the same place, ie:
> > 
> > https://temp.aurel32.net/tzdata-git.tar.gz
> > https://git.aurel32.net/?p=tzdata.git;a=summary
> > 
> > > Any comments are welcome. If it looks fine, I am planning to install
> > > this git repository on alioth, removing the SVN version, and then do the
> > > same for the glibc package.
> 
> I have just made the change live for the tzdata package. Please now use
> this git repository instead of the SVN one.
> 
> I'll do the same change for the glibc package in the next day.

I have just made the change live for the glibc package. Please use it
instead of the SVN one.

Aurelien

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