Issue running git-svn-mirror script on code

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Tue Jan 22 12:00:18 EST 2013


On 22-01-13 17:41, John Ralls wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:
>
>> What steps would your recommend to reattach private branches ? With my (limited) git knowledge I would only know how to export (git format-patch) from the old repo and import (git am) in the new clone. Is there a more direct way to do this ?
> Format-patch is the *safest* way, but the following should also work, though I haven't tested it yet:
> Clone the regenerated repo to a new repo (don't delete the old one yet!).
> Create a new branch from the target branch in the new repo.
> In the old repo, rebase the private branch on the head of the target branch (you'll want to do this before running format-patch, too).
> Back in the new repo, git pull the private branch into the new branch you just created. Rebase it onto the head of the target branch.
Interesting approach. Wouldn't this detect the discrepancy in history 
and try to pull in all these changes ?
> Can we have the gitolite repo available for a few days to test out procedures like this before we recreate the Github repo so that we can have good instructions on the wiki page?
Sure, it's easy to set up read-only access to the gitolite repos either 
to anyone or only the devs involved in the conversion.

Geert


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