Hi Geert, On 2013-01-22 12:25, Geert Janssens wrote: > [...] > > Just out of curiosity, what's the size of your private history to > convert ?
The only significant work I have is my fork on GitHub (yawaramin/gnucash-docs). Other than that, a few throwaway learning experiments.... > Regarding svn, it is not *my* intention to keep it up read-only in the > long term. The plan for now is to keep [...] > > But regardless, I'm pretty sure svn will disappear at some point. Just > look at history: originally GnuCash > [...] > > All this applies to the current svn to git migration as well. > > So at some point we would have to fix git's history anyway because the > original svn history would disappear. > > I'd rather do that now since the number of clones is still limited. > When git becomes the main repo, I expect many more clones to exist (as > decentralization is a very fundamental concept in git) and hence we'll > have to ask many more people to reclone. All very good arguments. I guess I just wanted to see where everyone was mentally. Derek, svn2git is a recommended tool that uses git-svn to do the conversion for you automatically. You just feed it an authors file (which John has, I guess), tell it to split out the git repos from the overarching svn repo, and let it do the work of sorting out the tags and branches. Regards, Yawar
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