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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:
>
> >      * 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 was trying to implement this but I'm not sure I want to pubish full email 
> for authors. Author name can be retrived from Savannah. Why is important to 
> have not only nick names in the repository?
I guess it's a good practice in git world to use pretty "author <email>" 
format for commit logs. Anyway, email addresses like author@64cb5145-927a-446d-8aed-2fb7b4773692
are nonsense. If retriving full email isn't convenient or leaks author's 
private information, I think format "author" is better than "author <author@UUID>".

> PS: I fond this
>
> http://jausoft.com/blog/2009/07/08/svn-to-git-migration-1/
>
> which explain how to manually mirror the svn branches and tags in git. I 
> think I prefer this than an automated script like svn2git. It allows me to 
> understand better the implications of the operation.
I read it, very detailed and complicated:-)
When I mirrored texmacs svn repository to git repository, I thought to 
cleanup the branches/tags mess, it's very simple thanks to standard 
layout of texmacs repository:

  $ git svn clone -s --authors-file=svn-authors \
        svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/texmacs
  $ cd texmacs

  create git tags:
  $ git branch -a | grep "remotes/"  | grep -v "remotes/origin" |
        grep "/tags/" | while read t; do n=${t##*/}; git tag $n $t; done

  create git branches:
  $ git branch -a | grep "remotes/" | grep -v "remotes/origin" |
      grep -v "/tags/" | while read t; do n=${t##*/}; git branch --track $n 
$t; done

These command can be executed multiple times because git will fail for 
existed branches and tags.

I didn't do this because I wanted to let it be the original state, no my 
fingerprint.

And about the svn-sync way described in that blog, I'm opposite to it.
As I remember, svn-sync would introduce extra svn properties to record
synchronization state which are nonsense for git. The texmacs repository
isn't very big, I mirrored it directly with git-svn in about four hours.

I recommend you give svn2git a try, maybe it considers more details.

Regards,
Yubao Liu