On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Jonathan Ballet <j...@multani.info> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:13:50PM +1100, Tim Allen wrote: >> >> I've done some experimentation, and (as best I can tell) it's impossible >> to use git-svn to create a sensible SVN → Git conversion of the Twisted >> repository. This is because of the various, inconsistent branch-naming >> schemes that have been used over Twisted's long history. > > Actually, maybe git-svn by itself is not smart enough to handle all the > possible cases and "weird" repository schemes like Twisted's one.
Yes, git-svn by itself cannot handle Twisted's repository both because of the repository layout that is different from what it expects, but also because if git-svn tries to mirror a repository with a large number of branches all at once it slows to a molasses-in-January crawl. > However, I think it should be possible with a second pass script to have > a pretty good, or at least better, conversion. The solution that I've come up with is to use git-svn to create a separate Git repository for each branch, and then git-push that branch into a central Git repository. This does burn *a lot* of disk space, but only one person needs to do it - everyone else can clone the central repository. The initial setup takes a while, but subsequent runs should be relatively fast. You can see the converted repository I'm building at: https://github.com/jcollie/twisted It's still in the process of building up so not all the branches are there yet. I've put the script that I'm using here: https://github.com/jcollie/twisted-svn-convert One feature that I'd like to add before calling this final is converting SVN usernames to "proper" names/email addresses like Git prefers to use. I use a similar script to mirror the Asterisk SVN repository with some good results: https://github.com/jcollie/asterisk -- Jeff Ollie _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
