Leo, On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Leo Neumeyer <leoneume...@gmail.com> wrote: > cross-posting to incubator in case someone there also had to go through the > git to svn migration and can share their experience.
I already mentioned you should take a look at this tool from Jukka Zitting; https://github.com/jukka/git2svn In addition you can ask on wave-dev. They have finally decided to loose history and do an initial checkin because it was not easily possible to convert. Cheers Christian > > Is there a process we can follow to put s4 in the beta git program? I know > this can create additional work for the infra folks but seems we may > already have a beta system perhaps we can just try it and help improve it. > We all benefit. > > -leo > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Bruce Robbins > <bruce.robbins...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I am the fellow trying to convert the S4 git repository to SVN with >> history preserved. I gave the following a whirl: >> >> http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ImportingFromGit >> http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2010/02/migrate-git-repo-to-svn-one.html >> >> http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/12/02/moving-git-repositories-to-svntfs/ >> >> The first two basically had the same issue: it required me to manually >> resolve all merges that had been performed in the history (and we have >> many). The third one just produced a series of error messages. >> >> I have not tried the perl script yet. I will contact Jukka Zittings. >> >> However, I agree with Jeremy: it would be great if we didn't have to >> preserve history from git to svn, and then sometime later from svn back to >> git. >> >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Jeremy Thomerson < >> jer...@thomersonfamily.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com >>> >wrote: >>> >>> > > Since so many projects seem to be migrating from svn to git, is there >>> any >>> > > way we can continue using git for this project. (I mean use git only, >>> > not as >>> > > a mirror). >>> > >>> > While I can't comment on best practices for Git-to-SVN moving, I'd >>> > just like to chime in to note that "so many projects" is not a good >>> > description of the current state of Git support at the ASF. Currently >>> > there is a single project using it in a limited manner as a test for >>> > wider support. There is no proposed time table for if/when Git support >>> > will be expanded so I would proceed as if it doesn't exist. >>> > >>> >>> Is it possible that this project could be added as a beta tester of Git? >>> It really doesn't make sense to make them migrate git->svn->git. If the >>> Git experiment fails, then they do a single migration. If it succeeds, no >>> migration necessary. >>> >>> Jeremy Thomerson >>> >> >> > > > -- > > Leo Neumeyer (@leoneu) > -- http://www.grobmeier.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
