Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-22 20:09:48

on Thu Mar 22 2012, Joel de Guzman <joel-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> On 3/23/12 7:05 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> Frank Birbacher<bloodymir.crap_at_[hidden]>  writes:
>>
>>> Currently I'd like Boost to stick with svn and suggest people who like
>>> git shall try "git-svn" or "git svn" (git seems to have native support
>>> for svn.)
>>
>> The Mercurial fans should look into hgsubversion:
>>
>>    http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgSubversion
>>    http://mercurial.aragost.com/kick-start/en/hgsubversion/
>>
>> This is a Mercurial extensions.
>
> I tried both git-svn and hgsubversion. Both take ages (measured in
> hours for me) for the first clone of the Boost repo. When git-svn finally
> finished, I got a blank local repo. I don't know why. Yeah! blank.
> As in nothing happened. With Hg-svn, it reported an error at one
> point and stopped cloning. I had to do it again, but I got frustrated
> and lost interest. Perhaps it's user error on my part, but it's not
> clear what I did wrong.
>
> Have any of you guys successfully used git-svn 

This repository was created with git-svn
https://github.com/ryppl/boost-svn

It was being kept up-to-date at least until recently.  You can clone
that as a starting point and should be able to start using it with
git-svn.

> and/or hgsubversion with the Boost repo? Could you try and give me
> some hints on how to go about it? I'm not an expert on either Git or
> Hg and if a mistake/error will cost many hours of waiting, with
> indeterminate hit-or-miss results, then it's simply not worth trying.
>
> Regards,

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Dave Abrahams
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