If theres a technical question in there, ive done svn to git conversion
before.

Just minus any kind of synchronization.

All the attributions and everything are preserved.

I can handle converting the repo in a couple hours and transfer ownership
to whomever needs it....

Just offering.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 4:22 PM Jeremy Huntwork <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:51 Pierre Labastie <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 17/04/2019 16:57, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>> > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:50 AM Pierre Labastie
>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Problem is I do not know how to transfer the author name to the svn
>> repo: I've
>> >> tried with a "git svn" repo, but it does not transfer the author name!
>> After
>> >> this try (r4098), your name was not even mentioned in the commit
>> message, and
>> >> I felt very bad about that. Fortunately, I've been able to amend the
>> message
>> >> with svnadmin. But still you do not appear as the author.
>> >
>> > Thanks, I appreciate that effort, but it really doesn't bother me.
>> >
>> >> Next time, I'll use a regular svn repo, and copy the full git log
>> message, so
>> >> that at least your name appears...
>> >>
>> >> Well, maybe you could acquire (or you already have) commit rights to
>> the
>> >> linuxfromscratch repo? I do not think I can grant you those rights,
>> but why
>> >> not asking Bruce?
>> >>
>> >> You could then commit patches, and I would mail to alfs-discuss if I
>> wanted to
>> >> modify something, or modify them myself (for example for trivial
>> typos, or
>> >> mandatory fixes in the rare cases when something is broken), and same
>> in the
>> >> other direction of course!
>> >
>> > I'll think about that. I honestly don't know how much time I am able
>> > to spend on this, it really just started as a bit of poking around.
>> >
>> > You mentioned you use git locally - what prevents you from moving the
>> > source to a public git repo, like on Github or Gitlab and
>> > collaborating there? That would seem to make things easier.
>> >
>>
>> Actually, there are a couple of things which restrain myself from doing
>> so:
>> - I'm not sure of the legal status of jhalfs. Normally it is GPLv2, but
>> the
>> license refers to a "copyright holder", and I am not sure who is the
>> "copyright holder". There is nothing in the files. As long as it is
>> hosted on
>> svn.linuxfromscratch.org, I think it is Gerard's and/or Bruce's problem.
>> If I
>> host it elsewhere, I do not know...
>> - Synchronizing the public git repo and the svn repo on
>> svn.linuxfromscratch.org may not be very easy. It'll certainly take some
>> of my
>> time, which is not extensible...
>> - I make a lot of mistakes on my private repo, which I wouldn't like other
>> people to see (half serious :)
>>
>> But they are pros, of course:
>> - easier collaboration: retain original authors, even if they do not do
>> the
>> "push" themselves; ease of branching and merging; flexible workflows (PR,
>> direct push, patches)
>> - access to a lot of possibilities offered by the infrastructure
>> - ...
>>
>> So I may go for it at some point, but not now, and only when I am sure
>> about
>> the legal implications.
>>
>> Pierre
>
>
>
> We could see what Gerard has to say, but I’m pretty confident I’m the
> copyright holder. I committed the version of the license file that still
> appears next to the code as well as the first versions of jhalfs itself.
>
> If we moved it, I would think we could just point the web pages to the new
> location and not worry too much about synchronization.
>
> Anyway, I’m not currently the maintainer so it’s totally up to you.
>
> JH
>
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