Bernd Zeimetz <be...@bzed.de> writes: > Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> I tried to put together a guide[1] to convert SVN repo to Git hosted on >>> Alioth. >>> >>> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#ConvertaSVNAliothrepositorytoGit >>> >>> Since I'm not that expert in Git, I'd like to ask you for its review. >>> The conversion and all other steps are working, but there's room for >>> improvement, I think. >> >> the howto is useful if you want to convert the svn history of a project. >> >> The approach is IME useless for converting package branches that only >> contain the debian/ directory of a package. This kind of package branch >> layout is commongly found on svn.debian.org. > > Not completely. If you have the tarballs of the released versions you > can import and merge them.
can you point me to someone (or ideally to a script or detailed explanation) that managed to do that in an automated way? > Or just ignore the old history and begin merging with the > latest upstream version. Importing tarballs is manual work, but it is > possible... that's what I did in the past. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
