From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Advice wanted to set up GIT repository manually sync'ed form SVN Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:16:49 +0100 Message-ID: <49C21B91.40304@drmicha.warpmail.net> References: <79BA5EFC11BE4E06A78D39D06D1549AF@HPLAPTOP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Git Mailing List To: Aaron Gray X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Mar 19 11:18:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LkFKv-0005GF-68 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:18:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753271AbZCSKRK (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:17:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752541AbZCSKRI (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:17:08 -0400 Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:59964 "EHLO out4.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752361AbZCSKRF (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:17:05 -0400 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6F512F496E; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:17:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:17:03 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: uDExqUMcG4xdu12F7OWfR/6H05VP9prh8zeumzQsF+AI 1237457823 Received: from localhost.localdomain (whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.44.12]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 29C1145FDA; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:17:03 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4pre) Gecko/20090319 Lightning/1.0pre Shredder/3.0b3pre In-Reply-To: <79BA5EFC11BE4E06A78D39D06D1549AF@HPLAPTOP> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Aaron Gray venit, vidit, dixit 18.03.2009 21:46: > Hi, > > I am a realitive GIT newbie, ie I have not used GIT on a project but have > read quite a lot of documentation on it, over the last year or so. > > We are wanting to have a git and git-web repository that is synced to a main > SVN repository, wh only want to read the SVN repository at this stage. I am > planning on using git-svn raw, and do fetch'es by hand. > > Is there any advice that I should know at this point before proceeding ? Read-only access should be mostly pain-free, unless the structure of the svn repo is unfriendly. If it exists already and is large I'd suggest to do a few test conversions with limited revision range first, adjust the config, optionally set up an author map and then go live. Michael