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Re: Your move of mothur to Git



On 05/09/15 21:45, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Tomasz,
>
> On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 08:30:09PM +0200, Tomasz Buchert wrote:
> >
> > I don't know to throw previous history either. What about this
> > repo: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/mothur.git/ ?
> > I keep old history inside svn-debian and svn-upstream branches.
>
> Ahh, I missed this branches.  I'm not interested in svn-upstream, but if
> you would merge svn-debian right into master that would be perfect.

Hi Andreas,
actually, I got this svn-upstream branch wrong and now it is completely
removed. I also merged my work with the old svn packaging.

>
> > > continue with your commits later this would probably a good idea.  So if
> > > you agree I move your current mothur.git to mothur_new.git and do the
> > > conversion first.  You could then commit your later changes on top of
> > > these.  If you have good reasons to follow a different approach that
> > > would be fine for me but please let us know these reasons.  As I said it
> > > would not be a real problem - I just want to make sure you are
> > > proceeding intentionally this way.
> >
> > I did more or less the same thing as the script does (followind Alioth/git wiki).
> > I imported the repo and git-svn created two branches (with debian directory and
> > upstream sources). I renamed the tags to "svn/...". Then I pulled my work.
> >
> > The histories are separate, but I can think of rebasing my work on top
> > of these two branches. I even tried, but failed a bit.
>
> I have no experience with git-svn and I'm not sure how I could help
> but it would be good if you would try harder to get svn-debian and
> master merged.

It looks fine to me now.

>
> > Please let me know what you think.
>
> I think there is no point if I would follow my suggestion to convert
> svn2git from scratch since you basically did so.  There are two things
> missing:
>
>   1. Change Vcs fields (which I just did, please `git pull`)

Thanks!

>   2. Droping a README.status at the old SVN location to inform
>      users about the move to Git.  I'd volunteer to do so once
>      the history in master is OK.

Go ahead :).

>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>

Cheers,
Tomasz

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