From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Frank Lichtenheld Subject: Re: Problems importing SVN repo via git-svnimport Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 17:34:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20070526153443.GC2674@planck.djpig.de> References: <20070526125553.GC10324@artsapartment.org> <20070526130643.GA2674@planck.djpig.de> <20070526151046.GA2239@artsapartment.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Art Haas X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat May 26 17:35:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HryIE-0007ww-7O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 17:34:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753953AbXEZPes (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 11:34:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754050AbXEZPes (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 11:34:48 -0400 Received: from planck.djpig.de ([85.10.192.180]:2569 "EHLO planck.djpig.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753953AbXEZPes (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 May 2007 11:34:48 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by planck.djpig.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB98274014; Sat, 26 May 2007 17:34:45 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at planck.djpig.de Received: from planck.djpig.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (planck.djpig.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id bMz-kvPVFgwQ; Sat, 26 May 2007 17:34:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: by planck.djpig.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EDDAA274013; Sat, 26 May 2007 17:34:43 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070526151046.GA2239@artsapartment.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 www: http://www.djpig.de/