> On Apr 6, 2017, at 2:04 AM, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de> wrote: > > Guten Tag Ralph Goers, > am Donnerstag, 6. April 2017 um 07:10 schrieben Sie: > >> No. To be honest, I’m not 100% sure if the community wants to move >> to git or not > > "We" want, as nobody objected in the discussion and Matts description > of how to deal with GitHub PRs sounds very promising. > >> and I am not quite sure what the process is to move >> from svn to git without losing history. I guess I will just create >> a Jira issue for infra and find out. > > From my understanding, a logging PMC needs to create the GIT repo: > >> With the continued growth of git usage, a service was created to >> support creating new repositories for PMCs. It is a fully automated >> tool, eliminating any additional tickets. The tool can be found at >> https://reporeq.apache.org. > > https://git-wip-us.apache.org <https://git-wip-us.apache.org/>
I know about the tool. I’ve used it a few times. I don’t know how to import from svn without losing history. > > Additionally, the current SVN repo needs to be imported into a local > GIT repo and that import can than be pushed to the newly created at > Apache. Not sure where the SVN repo goes afterwards… > The above is the part I don’t know how to do. > In some former Mail, Matt thankfully offered to do the repo creation > and GIT import, but at least the import is something I could have a > look at myself as well. Shouldn't make any difference who pushes the > history in the end. > > As I didn't do such an import in the past yet, it might simply take > some time. But there seem to be some good examples out there: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/3972103/2055163 > https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git#readme > > I will (try to) look into the import itself at the weekend. > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen, > > Thorsten Schöning Ralph
