Re: [boost] Live read-only GIT mirrors of Boost trunk SVN

Subject: Re: [boost] Live read-only GIT mirrors of Boost trunk SVN
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-05-04 03:30:05

on Thu Apr 25 2013, Niall Douglas <ndouglas-AT-blackberry.com> wrote:

> The live GIT mirrors of Boost trunk SVN have become a bit stale in recent
> months:
>
> https://github.com/ryppl/boost-svn, long time favourite of many, now 4
> months stale.
>
> https://github.com/Beman/boost-trunk-git-svn is now 2 months stale.
>
> https://github.com/alexanderkjeldaas/boost-mirror is fresh, but has no
> branches nor tags.
>
> They all generally use git-svn, which tends to be brittle and not translate
> commits perfectly unfortunately e.g. SVN eol properties and other such
> metadata. So I decided to try out a new Subversion <=> Git mirroring tool,
> SubGit v2.0 EAP (http://subgit.com/eap/) whose author very kindly gave me a
> free open source licence and the result is at:
>
> https://github.com/ned14/boost-trunk
>
> All branches and tags, as far as I can tell, are mirrored correctly. I've
> set a cron job every 24 hours. Theoretically if we had an authors mapping
> file it would work in the opposite direction too i.e. be read-write.

Nice.  You can find a complete author mapping here:
https://github.com/ryppl/Boost2Git/blob/master/authors.txt

> My next task is to live mirror a github repo into Boost Sandbox. Currently
> SubGit segfaults on this due to the complex SVN properties auto-translation
> which requires a specially marked up .gitattributes, but the author is very
> keen to fix the problem. In theory then it ought to just work.
>
> Any mistakes in my Boost mirror, or any problems, or even thoughts are
> gratefully received.

Don't put too much effort into this; Boost SVN->Git modularization is
just about ready for review :-)

-- 
Dave Abrahams