Re: More precise tag following

Chris Lee [off-list ref] wrote:

Also, please note, the 3GB packed repo is only about 2/3 of the full
KDE repo - I cut off the import at revision 409202, because that was
when the KDE svn admins decided to move a bunch of modules from
/trunk/ to /trunk/KDE/ and it screws up everything. So a *full* KDE
history import would definitely be more than 4GB, packed.

Hmm.. This movement from /trunk to /trunk/KDE could be a good case
for the (still-improving) --follow-parent feature in git-svn.

I've resigned to the fact that git-svn (and git) is not ideal for
tracking the entire KDE repository.   I don't think most (sane)
developers check out the entire repository root when working on KDE,
and cloning a 3GB pack just isn't realistic these days.

But if splitting the monster repository into separate repositories is an
option for KDE, and I can make --follow-parent do what it's supposed to
do very well: then it could be a nice way to make things more manageable
for developers that will eventually switch to.

For tracking the trunk of kde-common, I'm running with my
work-in-progress version of git-svn:

git-svn init -i kde-common svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/KDE/kde-common
git-svn fetch -i kde-common --follow-parent

It seems to be following kde-common into pre-409202 revisions (down to
r11472) pretty well.  I'll upload the result to git.bogomips.org when
I'm done.

You can get my latest git-svn here: git://git.bogomips.org/git-svn
Note: I've not used this to dcommit for serious work, so I can't tell
if it's really useful.  But fetching seems fine.

The current --follow-parent implementation does not handle some cases
very well.  I would like to get it to correctly track parents analogous
to the way gitk was merged into git, so that subprojects merged into
a bigger project are currently ignored.

Junio: there are some huge changes; so please don't merge it into master
yet, I don't feel it's ready yet, but it should be sometime in the next
week.  I would like to see this in 1.5.0, but only if it's not horribly
broken (especially w.r.t committing).

-- 
Eric Wong