Re: working with a large repository and git svn

[Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>]

Hi Joe,

Joe Corneli writes:
> > I think the state of the art is currently git2svn
> 
> Thanks, that did indeed work, though, for the record it uses committer
> name and email in the log that it generates, not author name and
> email, but no worries!

That should be easy enough to fix with something like this (warning:
untested). A more elegant solution would actually use some sort of
user-configurable mapping from Git authors/ committers to SVN authors
though.

Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
--8<--
diff --git a/git2svn b/git2svn
index 2380775..3856696 100755
--- a/git2svn
+++ b/git2svn
@@ -261,12 +261,8 @@ COMMAND: while (!eof(IN)) {
 	    $commit{Mark} = $1;
 	    $next = next_line($IN);
 	}
-	if ($next =~ m/author +(.*)/) {
-	    $commit{Author} = $1;
-	    $next = next_line($IN);
-	}
-	unless ($next =~ m/committer +(.+) +<([^>]+)> +(\d+) +[+-](\d+)$/) {
-	    die "missing comitter: $_";
+	unless ($next =~ m/author +(.+) +<([^>]+)> +(\d+) +[+-](\d+)$/) {
+	    die "missing author: $_";
 	}
 
 	$commit{CommitterName} = $1;
@@ -275,6 +271,9 @@ COMMAND: while (!eof(IN)) {
 	$commit{CommitterTZ} = $4;
 
 	$next = next_line($IN);
+	if ($next =~ m/committer +(.*)/) {
+	    $next = next_line($IN);
+	}
 	my $log = read_data($IN, $next);
 
 	$next = next_line($IN);