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[Yubao Liu <address@hidden>]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Gubinelli Massimiliano wrote:

> Hi,
> On 2 déc. 2010, at 17:35, Liu Yubao wrote:
>
>       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...

Seems svn2git works not only for the first import:

https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git
Repository Updates

As of svn2git 2.0 there is a new feature to pull in the latest changes 
from SVN into your git repository created with svn2git. This is a one way 
sync, but allows you to use svn2git as a mirroring tool for your SVN 
repositories.

The command to call is:

    $ cd <EXISTING_REPO> && svn2git --rebase

>            * 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.

Agree, that's better.


Regards,
Yubao Liu