On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Hanno Schlichting <ha...@hannosch.eu> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Jens Vagelpohl <j...@dataflake.org> >> wrote: >> > I did not choose to include or exclude any branch. The test migration >> > uses the package used to migrate most Plone packages from SVN to GitHub, >> > which uses svn2git underneath. If there's whole branches missing the >> > migration has obviously failed. >> >> I had a bunch of problems with ZODB and the ruby svn2git. > > > If you used a ruby tool, then you didn't use the same one as the Plone > migrations. Unfortunately there's at least two different tools named > svn2git. The one used by the Plone migrations is from the KDE community and > written in Qt. Some of the more useful info is at > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git > > That tool doesn't really use git-svn. Instead it scan through all SVN > revisions, looks at the changed paths and matches those against a ruleset. > So you can tell it that both /foo/bar/trunk and /bar/trunk contain code that > goes into the final bar.git repo. Since you can manually influence these > rules, this tool tends to work better on projects which have moved their > location in SVN a lot. It also does a single scan through the entire SVN > repo and is able to generate many resulting git projects at once. Which made > it perfect for a mass-migration. > > git-svn or tools based on it, tend to work well on small projects that > always stayed in the same place, with the same structure.
That's interesting. Not sure what I think about it (now that I have something mostly working and don't want to figure out something else :), but definitely worth thinking about. Thanks. Jim -- Jim Fulton http://www.linkedin.com/in/jimfulton Jerky is better than bacon! http://zo.pe/Kqm _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
