Re: [boost] [Git] Extracting libraries from the svn sandbox

Subject: Re: [boost] [Git] Extracting libraries from the svn sandbox
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-12-12 17:29:14

Even though I have yet to try this.. Which I'll do later tonight when I get
home.. It's possible with subversion 1.7 to just use the svnrdump command
to dump out a subtree from svn with history. Then to load it back up to to
Github through their subversion interface. Thereby preserving all history,
including branches if you follow the trunk/branches naming or manually load
back into trunk and branches individually. I'll post some steps later
tonight as to how the results look like.

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Mika Fischer <mika.fischer_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >   git svn clone https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/endian
> > [...]
> > Comments? Is there a better way to do this?
>
> This approach has the following disadvantages (which might or might
> not be important to you):
> - it will add git-svn-id lines to all commit messages
> - the commit authors will have invalid email addresses
> - their names will be the username in the svn repository
>
> In case some or all of these issues bother you, I've successfully used
> the following instructions to create repositories that pretty much
> look like regular git repositories:
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/3972103/92542
>
> Basically, for the first issue, you can pass "--no-metadata" to "git
> svn clone". And for the other issues you can provide a mapping from
> svn user to git user in a text file and pass it to "git svn clone" via
> "-A".
>
> Best,
>  Mika
>
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