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["Sam Liddicott" <address@hidden>]

I think you are right to use git-svn to synchronize your git tree for as 
long as SVN is the official repository.

If that changes and git becomes official instead of svn, then use 
svn2git to convert the repo. Those who have been cloning from the 
git-svn repo will have to then pull from the official git-repo and 
rebase their work against that.

The only people which this will cause problems for are those who aren't 
using rebase but merging in their own work - but such people are likely 
to be committing their work to SVN anyway, and so will have no un-merged 
branches.

Sam

On 02/12/10 21:34, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2 déc. 2010, at 17:35, Liu Yubao wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Gubinelli Massimiliano
> > <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 2 déc. 10, at 06:16, Yubao Liu wrote:
> > > > I didn't notice the git mirror at gitorious and just mirrored one to
> > > > https://github.com/Dieken/texmacs, it's done with git-svn not svn2git
> > > > which seems better.
> > > >
> > > > Is the gitorious mirror official? texmacs's git repository is only 
> > > > 38 MB,
> > > > I think it's not a big problem to clone it.
> > >
> > > It is official. We decided to keep it in sync with the main svn 
> > > repository.
> > > I saw that you have git-svn metadata in your repository. How does it 
> > > work?
> > > (I would like to replicate this on my repository). How do you save and
> > > restore metadata? It is not possible to simply mirror the locally 
> > > generated
> > > repository (via git-svn) to the server (thus including all the 
> > > metadata)?
> > Glad to know it's official, could you add a link to texmacs.org 
> > <http://texmacs.org>?
> >
> > That git-svn metadata is obtained by the stupidest way, I just 
> > manually copy
> > .git/config and .git/svn to work tree and record them in git 
> > repository:-)
> > I record the meta data because it seems git-svn must re-sync from scratch
> > if I delete my local git repository.
> > // Just verified, missing .git/svn doesn't matter, git-svn will
> > rebuild it if has proper
> > // .git/config (contains git-svn configuration), but it's very slow 
> > for me.
> >
> > I notice your git mirror was just set up two days ago, I suggest you 
> > create
> > it again when it's not used widely now. Here are the recommended steps:
>
> >     * use svn2git, not git-svn directly, I just found svn2git after I
> > mirrored texmacs
> >       svn repository, it's annoying that git-svn doesn't convert svn
> > branches/tags to
> >       git branches/tags.
> > https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git/
> > http://help.github.com/svn-importing/
>
>
> Yes but this would work only for the first import. How to keep the 
> branches/tags in sync automatically.
> Maybe I can just do it by hand...
>
> >      * use an author file to obtain pretty author information in git,
> > a full author list could be
> >        obtained by parsing output of comand "svn log
> > svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texmacs".
>
> I will.
>
> >      * think about creating a separate branch from the initial commit
> > to record git-svn/svn2git
> >        related meta data like I did, then you could do the
> > synchronization everywhere quickly
> >        without synchronizing from scratch or rebuilding git-svn meta
> > data. This isn't a prefect
> >        way as the .git/svn directory is 7.6 MB now, maybe it's better
> > to store it separate from
> >        the git repository.
> >        (I don't know if svn2git will save meta data automatically.)
>
> Better solution is for me to provide a tar ball somewhere with an 
> initial import so to save people the burden of importing from svn by 
> themselves. In any case it is not very important. Once an official git 
> mirror is available and keep in sync I think that most people will 
> clone from that.
>
>
> > I strongly advise texmacs to fully adopt git, as the whole texmacs git
> > repository is only 30 MB
> > (not containing 7.6 MB .git/svn directory) and a local repository is
> > vey convenient to do history
> > digging and "bisect". People wouldn't like to clone whole git
> > repository could do a shallow clone
> > which would be very quick.
> >
> > I will destroy my git mirror soon because it's not set up perfectly
> > and I'm afraid I have not
> > enough energy to keep it up with upstream. I'll clone yours if you
> > create it again.
>
> Ok.
>
> Thanks
> max
>
> > Regards,
> > Yubao Liu


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