Public Git repo: Status update

[Derek Atkins]

John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:

> On Jan 5, 2011, at 2:29 AM, Christian Stimming wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011 schrieb John Ralls:
>>> The second try stopped at r15521 for reasons that aren't entirely clear to
>>> me.
>> 
>> This particular revision has nothing uncommon at all. I wouldn't understand 
>> why git-svn stops particularly there.
>> 
>> There are other SVN revisions which cause occasional trouble with git-svn. One 
>> infamous example from another project is that someone did "svn copy 
>> blabla/trunk/subdirectory blabla/branches/subdirectory", i.e. the branch 
>> directory wasn't a copy from the top-level trunk but from some other 
>> directories. This violates the convention of having branches always as copies 
>> from top-level trunk... but in our case this doesn't apply.
>
> It wasn't that one that gave trouble, it was the next one, which had
> an author whose name didn't appear in any trunk checkin. There were a
> few of those, since resolved.

Yes, we had a number of development branches for e.g. GSoC where they
had branch access but never trunk access.

> So I have a complete repository created with svn2git, which has nice
> git-formated branches and tags (meaning that git branch and git tag
> see them), except that a couple of them, including master, are a bit
> munged and need to be fixed up before I push them.

Nice.

> I also started a straight git svn clone, which stopped mysteriously
> about the same place. I just restarted it.

What's the bottleneck in doing the conversion?

> Today is Habitat day, so I won't get much work on this done. 
>
> Yawar, how is your git svn clone coming?
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek

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