On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Fred Cooke <[email protected]> wrote: > Git can generate normal patches that you can simply apply and commit after > testing.
I have tried both of the diff/patch formats available at GitHub, and was not able to use any of them to patch my svn working copy. > Or you could have a Git-SVN repo of your own setup, fetch the git > commits, cherry pick hem into your SVN based tree, and dcommit them back > up. This was the solution I ended up with. The drawback is having to do your own setup. Especially if it hasn't been documented. > I use Git-SVN every day at work. It's either that or kill myself as SVN > is wretched in every way. > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Dennis Lundberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I just want to clarify the reason for my struggles, for those who >> might not have read that thread: >> >> Someone set up a GitHub mirror for maven-plugins, but the canonical >> repo for maven-plugins is in Subversion. That makes it very difficult >> to use the native git tools to handle the contributions, beacuse data >> only ever travels from svn to git in this case IIUC. It also makes our >> contributors think that merging their pull requests is an easy task, >> because it would be if it was all git. When we don't respond to those >> pull requests they might loose interest and stop creating pull >> requests. So it really has nothing to do with technology and has >> everything to do with bad timing. >> >> >> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I think it's time for a full migration of all our repositories to Git. I >> just see the email with Dennis struggling to merge a simple pull request >> and I think it's just time to switch completely. I think someone already >> started a list and we should just move through it. Personally I find SVN is >> just a huge hindrance at this point, especially for contributors. >> > >> > Thanks, >> > >> > Jason >> > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------- >> > Jason van Zyl >> > Founder, Takari and Apache Maven >> > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >> > http://twitter.com/takari_io >> > --------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > The most dangerous risk: spending your life not doing what you want on >> the bet you can buy yourself freedom to do it later. >> > >> > -- Randy Komisar >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Dennis Lundberg >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> -- Dennis Lundberg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
