Package: git-svn
Version: 1:1.6.3.3-2
Severity: normal
I am attempting to clone the packaging of
'game-data-packager' from the Debian games team subversion
repository. This is located at
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages
Unfortunately, this repository uses a different layout
convention to the SVN norm:
{branches,trunk,tags}/packagename i.e.
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/trunk/game-data-packager
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/tags/game-data-packager
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages/branches/game-data-packager
Following the advice at [1] and [2], I attempted
git svn clone svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-games/packages \
--no-metadata --trunk=/trunk/game-data-packager \
--branches=/branches/game-data-packager \
--tags=/tags/game-data-packager
After a few hours (!), this resulted in a git repository
the master branch of which represented the commits for
trunk and git branches existed for current (and deleted)
svn branches and tags.
This process however took far too long and appeared to
touch much more of the SVN repository than is necessary.
An example of some of the output during operation:
r7000 = a6ade08584d91c3d34bc6c454ef7bb3edfc83ef7 (consolidate-d...@7739)
M nexuiz/debian/nexuiz-server.examples
M nexuiz/debian/nexuiz-server.docs
r7001 = 1af84f4df99d550b491818daece5c231989f5f73 (consolidate-d...@7739)
M nexuiz/debian/changelog
nexuiz, in this case, is a package which lives alongside
game-data-packager in the repository. It appears every
package had every commit inspected. The resulting git
repository is 97M big, which (by my estimation) is two
orders of magnitude larger than needed for the entire
history of game-data-packager (a relatively small shell
script). (It's 87M after 'git gc').
If I run git svn clone as above but also specifying
--authors-file, it will exit complaining about missing
entries for authors who have never touched
game-data-packager. In order to get it to complete, I have
to fabricate an authors file with lines for each person who
has committed to any part of the repository, not just to
game-data-packager.
At some point in game-data-packager's past, it was renamed
from game-package. I wonder if this over-eager scanning of
the SVN repository relates to this change? (it was svn
revision 7707, iirc, and git-svn has at least correctly
sewn the two histories together correctly).
[1] http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS#Convertingfromsvnrepository
[2] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#ConvertaSVNAliothrepositorytoGit
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
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ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.30-4 A perl module for simple terminal
ii libwww-perl 5.828-1 WWW client/server library for Perl
git-svn recommends no packages.
Versions of packages git-svn suggests:
pn git-doc <none> (no description available)
ii subversion 1.5.6dfsg-1 Advanced version control system
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