From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@goebel-consult.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: migrating from svn: How to clean up history?
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:12:21 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m362hkh5em.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EE766D5.5040702@goebel-consult.de>
Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@goebel-consult.de> writes:
> I'm one of the developers of www.pyinstaller.org, a tool for
> bundling/packagin Python scripts and al required modules into a single
> executable for easy distribution. We are in the process of migrating
> from Subversion to git.
>
> Our SVN-Repo contains some stuff we do not want or do not need in the
> git repo. How can we clean this up?
>
> 1) Useless commits e.g. tagging -> I want to remove these
> 2) copy or move mistakes -> I want to "correct" the copy
[...]
> Any hints how to to this clean-up?
You can try "gitsvnparse" command from 'reposurgeon' tool to
automatically correct some conversion mistakes, and use this tool to
do further fixes
http://www.catb.org/esr/dvcs-migration-guide.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/
HTH
--
Jakub Narebski
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-13 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-13 14:53 migrating from svn: How to clean up history? Hartmut Goebel
2011-12-13 15:12 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2011-12-16 23:11 ` Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen
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