From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Niebler Subject: Re: help moving boost.org to git Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:51:43 -0400 Message-ID: <4C321BAF.8020303@boostpro.com> References: <4C31E944.30801@boostpro.com> <4C31F0D4.1040207@viscovery.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 05 19:52:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OVppj-0007O1-HP for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:51:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754348Ab0GERvu (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:51:50 -0400 Received: from boostpro.com ([206.217.198.21]:50742 "EHLO boostpro.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753456Ab0GERvt (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:51:49 -0400 Received: from [192.168.2.114] (c-76-118-178-34.hsd1.ma.comcast.net [76.118.178.34]) (Authenticated sender: eric) by boostpro.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1139E14BC88 for ; Mon, 5 Jul 2010 18:51:49 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100512 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.5 In-Reply-To: <4C31F0D4.1040207@viscovery.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com