Jukka, if you need help w/ this or want to delegate any of it let us
know. Good exercise for us to get familiar w/ the Apache systems.




On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Jukka Zitting <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The import of PhoneGap sources to Apache was a bit delayed since there
> weren't any good tools for mapping the Git version history to
> Subversion, and it can be pretty painful to loose all that
> information.
>
> To solve that problem I wrote a simple script [1] that does a
> reasonably good mapping from Git to Subversion using temporary
> branches to work around the limitations of Subversion.
>
> I'm still testing the script to spot any remaining issues, but it's
> looking pretty good already. I should be able to do the conversion
> later today after which one of the Subversion admins at Apache needs
> to import the converted history to svn.apache.org. That shouldn't take
> too long, so I'm expecting the process to be ready by tomorrow.
>
> Any pending commits that haven't yet been pushed to the main PhoneGap
> repositories will need to be rebased to the new repositories, but that
> should be fairly straightforward.
>
> [1] https://github.com/jukka/git2svn
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>

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