Re: Problems importing SVN repo via git-svnimport

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On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 10:10:46AM -0500, Art Haas wrote:
> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:06:43PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:55:53AM -0500, Art Haas wrote:
> > > I'm happy to dive into the perl code in svnimport and make changes to
> > > help debug this problem, if there is actually a problem and not user
> > > error on my part. Any help from 'svnimport' experts will be greatly
> > > appreciated. The public repo listed above has the same contents as my
> > > local repo, so feel free to poke around it to see how things are
> > > structured.
> > 
> > You might want to try git-svn instead. It should support everything you
> > can do with git-svnimport and much more. Plus it is actively maintained
> > which I wouldn't say about git-svnimport.
> 
> Hi.
> 
> The git-svn docs say that it serves as a bi-directionaly gateway

It can be happily used for one-time imports, too. You might want to
use some options like the authors file and perhaps --no-metadata.
Can't say much about the rest of your plans since I'm no git-svn
expert. I have only ever used it for one-time imports so far.

> between git and svn, but that the main repo is a Subversion repository.
> My goal with the PythonCAD repo is to convert it so that the main
> repository is in git, and then I'm going to try to use git-svn to
> push my changes into the now-secondary Subversion repo. This way, I can
> make a distributed git repo available to developers wanting to
> contribute to PythonCAD, plus keep the developers currently using
> Subversion from having to make any changes if they either don't want to
> or are unable to (i.e. windows developers/users).
> 
> Is git-svnimport maintenence on the wane?

Search the archive of the last month for posts on git-svnimport...
IIRC there was one typo fix and one thread about a problem with it
that ended in the question wether it should be removed.

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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