On Tue, 1 Sep 2015, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > Renaming the files during the conversion is clearly *not* the right > thing to do: it would break all builds of old code.
Indeed. Ideally the tree objects in the git conversion should have exactly the same contents as SVN commits, and so be shared with the git-svn history to reduce the eventual repository size (except where there are defects in the git-svn history, or the git conversion fixes up cvs2svn artifacts and so some old revisions end up more accurately reflecting old history than the SVN repository does). One particular case: we have well-maintained .gitignore files, that might even be more accurate than the svn:ignore properties, and I think the conversion should keep those and disable all smart ignore handling (just discard svn:ignore properties, and pass through the existing .gitignore files (and .cvsignore files)). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
