I suggest the following tweaks to the documentation for how to convert a
repo from SVN to Git. The :: syntax didn't work for the URL given to
rsync. I also had difficulty accessing the local copy of the repository
I had made using rsync, so I've added some advice on how to do that.
Index: Usi
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:33:51AM +, Gavin Smith wrote:
> I suggest the following tweaks to the documentation for how to convert a
> repo from SVN to Git. The :: syntax didn't work for the URL given to
> rsync. I also had difficulty accessing the local copy of the repository
> I had made usi
Hi Gavin,
Ineiev wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > I suggest the following tweaks to the documentation for how to convert a
> > repo from SVN to Git. The :: syntax didn't work for the URL given to
> > rsync. I also had difficulty accessing the local copy of the repository
> > I had made using rsyn
Hi Ineiev,
> Log Message:
> ---
> Update per savannah-hackers-public@.
Thank you for handling that patch submission! All of the work you
have been doing is great!
For future commits I suggest using a log message that acknowledges the
contributor. Something along the lines of "Patches b
Gavin Smith wrote:
> +To access a local copy of the repository, use svnserve:
> +
> +svnserve -d -r svn_repo
> +
> +Then access it with git svn with something like:
> +
> +git svn clone svn://127.0.0.1/myproject -A authors-transform.txt
> --stdlayout ./temp.checkout
> +
> +where myproject
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 01:28:23PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Gavin Smith wrote:
> > +To access a local copy of the repository, use svnserve:
> > +
> > +svnserve -d -r svn_repo
> > +
> > +Then access it with git svn with something like:
> > +
> > +git svn clone svn://127.0.0.1/myproject -A
The :: syntax didn't work
For the record, it's either host::/path or rsync://host/path (or modules
instead of paths, not relevant here), but the syntaxes can't be mixed,
as the previous .md was doing. -k
Gavin Smith wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > file:///path/to/svn_repo
>
> I tried that first but got this problem:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27240428/git-svn-migration-failing-with-svn-1-8/27325713#27325713
Ah! There is some tool version and db format problems. In which case
the s
