cross-posting to incubator in case someone there also had to go through the git to svn migration and can share their experience.
Is there a process we can follow to put s4 in the beta git program? I know this can create additional work for the infra folks but seems we may already have a beta system perhaps we can just try it and help improve it. We all benefit. -leo On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Bruce Robbins <bruce.robbins...@gmail.com>wrote: > I am the fellow trying to convert the S4 git repository to SVN with > history preserved. I gave the following a whirl: > > http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ImportingFromGit > http://sandrotosi.blogspot.com/2010/02/migrate-git-repo-to-svn-one.html > > http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2007/12/02/moving-git-repositories-to-svntfs/ > > The first two basically had the same issue: it required me to manually > resolve all merges that had been performed in the history (and we have > many). The third one just produced a series of error messages. > > I have not tried the perl script yet. I will contact Jukka Zittings. > > However, I agree with Jeremy: it would be great if we didn't have to > preserve history from git to svn, and then sometime later from svn back to > git. > > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Jeremy Thomerson < > jer...@thomersonfamily.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Paul Davis <paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com >> >wrote: >> >> > > Since so many projects seem to be migrating from svn to git, is there >> any >> > > way we can continue using git for this project. (I mean use git only, >> > not as >> > > a mirror). >> > >> > While I can't comment on best practices for Git-to-SVN moving, I'd >> > just like to chime in to note that "so many projects" is not a good >> > description of the current state of Git support at the ASF. Currently >> > there is a single project using it in a limited manner as a test for >> > wider support. There is no proposed time table for if/when Git support >> > will be expanded so I would proceed as if it doesn't exist. >> > >> >> Is it possible that this project could be added as a beta tester of Git? >> It really doesn't make sense to make them migrate git->svn->git. If the >> Git experiment fails, then they do a single migration. If it succeeds, no >> migration necessary. >> >> Jeremy Thomerson >> > > -- Leo Neumeyer (@leoneu)
