On 5/30/14, 10:02 AM, Evan Ward wrote: > On 05/30/2014 05:56 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: >> Le 30/05/2014 00:39, Mark Thomas a écrit : >>> On 29/05/2014 23:16, Evan Ward wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm trying to setup write access for the clone I have of the github >>>> [math] repository. I thought that since every commit in that repository >>>> already had a git-svn-id it would be relatively easy, so I ran git svn >>>> init and git svn fetch. But the fetch has been running for ~5 hours now >>>> and seems to be checking out every commit individually! Is this typical >>>> of what other people using git svn have seen? How did other git svn >>>> users setup their repository? >>> And fairly soon the ASF svn server is probably going to ban you for abuse. >>> >>> Everything you need to set this up without hammering the svn server is >>> here (and associated links): >>> http://git.apache.org/ >>> >>> It should take less than a minute with a decent internet connection. > Thanks Mark for the pointer to the wiki page. Even after following the > instructions there git svn was still trying to download the entire > repository one commit at a time. I also had to: > > 1. echo `git rev-parse HEAD` > .git/refs/remotes/origin/trunk > 2. add myself to the authors.txt file > > Then it worked. :) > >>>> When I was searching the mail archives about this I saw a few emails >>>> about [math] switching to git, but didn't see a final decision. Is that >>>> still in progress? Maybe I'll just wait until the writable git >>>> repository gets set up... >>> That might be a long wait. >> Well, I would really like to see it happen. >> >> I am still volunteering to help people new to git on this, and I still >> think [math] could be a good candidate as the the commons component to >> switch to git. > If it means we can make the switch I'll volunteer to answer questions > about git as well.
OK, I will volunteer to ask stupid ones then ;) +1 to the idea; though all I can personally do to help is ask questions and try not to make mistakes. It is probably best for us to 0) give other [math] committers a chance to weigh in 1) get a git-knowledgeable person to volunteer to propose workflow, setup, etc and work with infra@ to get things set up Phil > > Best Regards, > Evan > >> best regards, >> Luc >> >>> Mark >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>> >>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
