On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:42 AM, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 01:55 +0100, Holger Freyther wrote: >> I think there is broad agreement on switching Bitbake over to git? Is there >> any striking reason to not just create a bitbake repository on >> git.openembedded.net and use git-svn to convert the whole svn repository? >> >> Personally I think now would be a good time. > > I agree we should move to git. > > I do want to see the history preserved though and the result of the > conversion to be sane and make sense. My experience of git-svn is that > it can sometimes need careful attention. I don't know how much churn > like layout changes the svn repository has had though... > > So yes, I'm in favour as long as we do it properly
Agreed 100%. git-svn is lovely, but its output can be messy at times. Of course, some of that isn't the fault of the tool, but the nature of the conversion (i.e. svn tags becoming branch refs rather than tags). Worst case, if there was a lot of restructuring, you can do multiple git-svn passes and graft the histories together. Basically, all it takes for a good conversion is a post-conversion manual fixup pass. -- Chris Larson clarson at kergoth dot com clarson at mvista dot com Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus Maintainer - Tslib Software Engineer MontaVista Software, Inc. _______________________________________________ Bitbake-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bitbake-dev
