Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] What's happened to Ryppl?
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-24 11:15:24

At Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:01:04 -0500,
John Wiegley wrote:
> 
> On Jan 14, 2011, at 2:43 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to chime in here and say hello; and that yes, I'm working on the
> > modularization project with input from both Dave and Eric.  I have the
> > beginnings of the migration script up here:
> > 
> >  https://github.com/jwiegley/boost-migrate
> > 
> > It's very rough right now, as I'm still exploring the completeness of the
> > Subversion 'dump' format, and how to use Git plumbing to avoid the migration
> > process taking days upon days to complete.
> 
> Quick status update: Direct conversion from a Subversion flat-filesystem to
> an identical Git flat-filesystem now works.  

So now you have a linear sequence of commits that reflect the state of
the entire SVN tree?

> It takes 8 GB of RAM and a lot of time to run, but that can be
> optimized fairly easily.

And incrementalized, by any chance?

> Next step is to read in a corrected branches.txt file (this is currently
> generated based on hueristics by the 'branches' subcommand), and then use
> that information to output a branchified object hierarchy instead of a flat
> one.  This step should be very easy to implement.
> 
> After that is reading Eric's manifest.txt file and using the information
> to produce multiple submodules during the repository conversion process.
> This step is quite a bit trickery, and will require a few days to get
> right.

Sounds like you're making great progress; keep it up!

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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