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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com>
Cc: Matt Stump <mstump@goatyak.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>,
	Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:39:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim6w54CPhw0GzaDxT9e0t19XQ7-rMEe5aSBevS+@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2196050.492435.1287154246295.JavaMail.root@mail.hq.genarts.com>

Heya,

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:50, Stephen Bash <bash@genarts.com> wrote:
> The process can certainly be streamlined.  As is often the case, this
> process was created via the "just make it work" mentality (and a barely
> passable knowledge of git).

Fair enough :)

> But I'm also looking at this from a one-time conversion view.  I had a
> couple of conversations with Ram that showed me my point of view is
> very narrow compared to the larger git-remote-svn effort...

Yeah, we not only want 'git-remote-svn' to be able to do incremental
imports, but we also want it to be able to push back to svn.

> I think using notes is a better way to associate conversion information
> with commits, but I would probably still end up mining the notes to create
> some sort of svn to git mapping...  Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see
> how notes would help me get from an svn rev to a git sha (a common
> practice for tickets and wiki links in our organization).

Ah, hmm, that is a good point. Couldn't you just tag object
0000000000000000143 for svn revision 143?

> I guess after that I should add that I'm happy to help, I'm just not sure
> where my experience maps to the on going effort.

Just general feedback, sanity checking, and if you're interested,
"beta testing" I think would be very useful :).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-15 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-13 15:44 Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch Matt Stump
2010-10-13 16:02 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-13 17:47   ` Matt Stump
2010-10-13 18:18     ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-14 16:22     ` Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch) Stephen Bash
2010-10-14 16:34       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-14 20:07         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-15 14:50           ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-15 23:39             ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2010-10-16  0:16               ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-17  2:25                 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-17  3:33                   ` David Michael Barr
2010-10-18  5:17       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-18  7:31         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 16:38           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-18 16:46             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 16:56               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 17:16                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-18 17:18                 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 17:28                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 18:10                     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 18:13                       ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 18:20                         ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 18:25                           ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-18 18:35                             ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-10-18 19:33                               ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-19  3:08                             ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-19  0:40                           ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-19  1:42         ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-19  6:42           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-19 13:33             ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-19 14:28               ` David Michael Barr
2010-10-19 14:57                 ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-20  8:39             ` Will Palmer
2010-10-20 11:59               ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-20 13:42                 ` Will Palmer
2010-10-20 20:44                   ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21  1:54                     ` mrevilgnome
2010-10-21  8:16                       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 13:49                         ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-21  9:08                     ` Will Palmer
2010-10-21 14:00                       ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-21 18:37                         ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 21:27                           ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-21 22:49                             ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 23:26                               ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-22 10:38                                 ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 15:52                       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-10-21 16:16                         ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-20 14:05               ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2010-10-20 14:21               ` Stephen Bash
2010-10-20 16:56                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra

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