Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)

Heya,

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 09:50, Stephen Bash [off-list ref] 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 :).

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier