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Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Moving beyond arm waving?
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-04 22:21:09


On 2/3/2011 1:56 AM, John Wiegley wrote:
> Beman Dawes<bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> * As a demonstration and proof-of-concept, a Boost library should
>> begin using Git. Presumably a public repository (on GitHub?) can
>> channel changes back to Boost svn. I'll volunteer the filesystem
>> library.
>
> I've made a copy of the fully migrated Boost repository available online for
> review here:
>
> https://github.com/boost-lib/boost-history
>
> In the course of creating the migration process, I had to fix several bugs in
> libgit2. This makes me less than 100% convinced of the fidelity of the result
> so far. I'd like anyone who can to review the sections familiar to them, to
> make sure nothing obvious has gone wrong.

FYI... After doing a clone, which took about 9 minutes on my 80Mbps
downlink (at 1.5M/s down from github).. And trying to play with some
export/imports. I ran "git fsck", and got hundreds of warnings and errors.

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