Re: help moving boost.org to git

[Eric Niebler <eric@boostpro.com>]

On 7/5/2010 10:48 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 7/5/2010 16:16, schrieb Eric Niebler:
>> I have a question about the best approach to take for refactoring a
>> large svn project into git. The project, boost.org, is a collection of
>> C++ libraries (>100) that are mostly independent. (There may be
>> cross-library dependencies, but we plan to handle that at a higher
>> level.) After the move to git, we'd like each library to be in its own
>> git repository.
> 
> You could use svn2git: http://gitorious.org/svn2git
> KDE uses it to split its SVN repository into pieces. The tool is driven by
> a "ruleset" that specifies SVN subdirectories and revision numbers that
> make up a module.

I'm off to learn about filter-branch, tree-filter and svn2git. Thanks
for the suggestions. More questions to come, I'm sure.

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Eric Niebler
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