Thanks for the info Greg! Ralph
> On Apr 6, 2017, at 9:14 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Thorsten Schöning <tschoen...@am-soft.de > <mailto:tschoen...@am-soft.de>> wrote: > >... > > 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: > > Yeup. > > >... > 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 svn repo sticks around, and we just switch it to read-only (file an INFRA > ticket when ready for that). > > 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. > > Yes. The Logging community can run svn2git and tweak its operation until you > have everything you want in the resulting (local) git repository. Once it all > looks good, then push all of that history into the newly-created git-wip > repository. (you may want to have INFRA disable commit emails during that > push) > > Cheers, > Greg Stein > Infrastructure Administrator, ASF >
