Hi Julian, On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 10:01 +0200, Julian Sedding wrote: > Hi Robert > > Thanks for pushing the conversion forward! > > IIUC your script uses https://github.com/apache/sling as the source > repository. I believe this is created using git-svn. (I'd be happy > for > a pointer that I am wrong!)
Yes, that is the case. > > According to Eric Raymond (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6778), who > claims > to have some experience with svn to git migrations, git-svn is not up > to the task. Maybe that's where the history is lost. > > In any case, I think we need to start the migration from the SVN > repository, given that https://github.com/apache/sling already lacks > the history. > > Maybe reposurgeon, the tool E. Raymond wrote, can help overcome the > issue with lost history when copying branches? I'll try reposurgeon, thanks for the pointer. The thing is that the git remote seems to have the right rename handling, but it's lost when I create the module. But let's see after I try reposurgeon. Thanks, Robert > > Regards > Julian > > > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Robert Munteanu <romb...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did a dry run migration of two sling bundles: > > > > https://github.com/rombert/TMP-sling-org.apache.sling.api > > https://github.com/rombert/TMP-sling-org.apache.sling.jcr.repoini > > t > > > > Please take a look and check if _anything_ is wrong. I think that I > > have the process narrowed down more or less using the scripts at > > [1]. > > > > What I know is missing is move tracking. For some reason, the > > jcr.repoinit module move is not captured and history starts after > > the > > move from bundles/extensions. ( SVN [2], git [3] ). Any help with > > what > > would be great. > > > > Also I've created a small repo tool setup at > > > > https://github.com/rombert/TMP-sling-manifest > > > > The instructions are in the README, but you need to install repo > > > > $ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > > > ~/bin/repo > > $ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo > > > > And then sync your local checkout > > > > $ repo init -u https://github.com/rombert/TMP-sling-manifest.git > > $ repo sync > > > > Any feedback is welcome, please do look into the migrated > > repositories > > or maybe propose some tougher migrations. If you are so inclined, > > the > > scripts at tooling/scm/scripts [1] can also use a second pair of > > eyes > > :-) > > > > I'm going to leave this open for a week or so, but maybe after that > > we > > can start migrating from SVN. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Robert > > > > > > [1]: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/sling/trunk/tooling/scm/scrip > > ts/ > > [2]: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1752162 > > [3]: https://github.com/apache/sling/commit/087f2d0504dc0b8c38fd298 > > ab9c > > 29f896321f8c8
