Re: [boost] One thing at a time: let's move to Git

Subject: Re: [boost] One thing at a time: let's move to Git
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-31 20:53:04

At Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:03:16 +0100,
Mathias Gaunard wrote:
> 
> On 31/01/2011 20:53, John Wiegley wrote:
> > Mathias Gaunard<mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden]>  writes:
> >
> >> I think there is already a non-modularized version of Boost on git
> >> somewhere. What else needs to be done?
> >
> > Mathias, I'm currently working on a conversion to Git that faithfully
> > preserves *all* past history.  The current boost-svn.git mirror out there on
> > the Net does not do this, and so is not sufficient for us to move to in my
> > opinion.
> >
> > I'll post here when I get closer; I'm about 95% complete with the process,
> > which directly rewrites Subversion dump files into their corresponding Git
> > objects, paying especial care that no change is lost from any revision's set
> > of transactions.
> >
> 
> Aren't there tools that already do this automatic conversion?

Yes.  The best known tools are being used by the boost-svn.git mirror.
John's doing better than that.

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Dave Abrahams
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