Git Migration: github with svn access

[John Ralls]

On Dec 25, 2011, at 9:13 AM, John Ralls wrote:

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> On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:07 PM, John Ralls wrote:
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>> On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:37 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
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>>> On maandag 28 november 2011, John Ralls wrote:
>>>> On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>>> On woensdag 23 november 2011, John Ralls wrote:
>>>>>> On Nov 11, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>>>>> On vrijdag 11 november 2011, Yawar Amin wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Geert,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 2011-11-11, at 11:47, Geert Janssens wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> […]
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Is there a way to create a branch via the github interface ? Or do I
>>>>>>>>> have to create one on my local repo and push it ? I didn't seem to
>>>>>>>>> find a feature on the website, but perhaps I missed it. I'm not very
>>>>>>>>> comfortable yet with te remote repo handling in git, so I prefer to
>>>>>>>>> ask before messing things up.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> You can do the latter.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> # In your local repo
>>>>>>>> git branch master remotes/origin/trunk
>>>>>>>> git push origin master
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Ok, I created a master branch, but svn checkout still fails with the
>>>>>>> same error. I guess we'll have to wait for github's response to John's
>>>>>>> comment on the blog.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well, there was never an answer to the blog post. But I tried it just
>>>>>> now and it checks out OK. Someone else has complained about an
>>>>>> authentication problem trying to commit, but we can't test that, it
>>>>>> would break the mirror with gnucash.org.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have been trying this for a couple of days now, but I still can't
>>>>> checkout. What command did you use ?
>>>> 
>>>> svn checkout https://svn.github.com/Gnucash/gnucash
>>>> 
>>>> Tried it just now and it worked.
>>>> 
>>> Indeed, that incantation does work. It seems to check out the current trunk 
>>> branch. I can't figure out how to check out the 2.4 branch though, or the 
>>> 2.4.x tag.
>>> 
>>> Did you have more luck ?
>> 
>> I have to admit that I didn't try... so I looked at the blog post again and I see that that was the old URL that they're supposed to be taking down. The correct URL doesn't work.
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>> The right one fails. I had a thought that it might be the presence of a "trunk" branch, so I changed "trunk" to "master" in my own Github repo (github.com/Gnucash/gnucash). No joy.
>> 
>> I've sent a support request.
> 
> Which they finally got around to handling (Tuesday, but I didn't test it until today). It works. Yay!

There's a catch, though: The numbers don't match up. To begin with, the first number is 89:
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r89 | unknown | 1997-10-31 09:39:32 -0800 (Fri, 31 Oct 1997) | 3 lines

New repository initialized by cvs2svn.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/gnucash/trunk@3 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd

Notice that it's r3 in our svn numbering.
The numbers diverge even more later, because we have a single repo with multiple datasets (gnucash, gnucash-htdocs, gnucash-docs, and gnucash-meta), but those are separate repos in git -- and gnucash-meta isn't exported to git yet. So every revision in one of the "other" datasets creates a discrepancy. The HEAD of the 2.4 branch is
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r17583 | john.ralls | 2011-12-24 08:58:55 -0800 (Sat, 24 Dec 2011) | 3 lines

Add gdk_pixbuf to the distribution

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/branches/2.4@21777 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd

and of Trunk:
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r17581 | geert.janssens | 2011-12-23 21:27:56 -0800 (Fri, 23 Dec 2011) | 4 lines

Win32 build: abort build process if install.sh step failed.
BP

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@21775 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd

The only time this is likely to be a problem is if someone does a build from an SVN checkout: It will look like they've used a really old version.

Regards (and Merry Christmas),
John Ralls