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

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From: "Sverre Rabbelier" <redacted>
To: "Stephen Bash" <redacted>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:39:09 PM
Subject: Re: Converting to Git using svn-fe (Was: Speeding up the initial git-svn fetch)

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

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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?

Yeah, I actually thought about that as I was writing the comment...  And after a completely unrelated conversation about tags at $WORK this afternoon, I'm half tempted to make a refs/tags/svn directory with lightweight tags named for SVN revs that point to the appropriate git object.  That idea along with a bunch of others are now brewing a 2.0 in my head since I started revisiting this proces.  We'll see if I have a productive weekend or not...

quoted

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 :).

I will do my best.

Thanks,
Stephen