On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Michael Bedward <michael.bedw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Git users, > > I have finally started using Git, some years after most others here. I > must say that I like it, or at least most of it, and can see how the > ease of working with branches is ideal when experimenting with new > code in a big complex project like GeoTools. However, I'm much less > enthusiastic about git-svn. I've experimented with "git svn clone -r > N" to clone trunk, but didn't like the endless warnings messages or > the sluggish speed on my modest internet line. I also note the > numerous queries and complaints on StackOverflow and other forums > about git-svn problems when working with large repos.
I always get nuts when I try to do a clone of a svn repo, it seems every time I have to try 3-5 times with different options before getting the command right, (and lazy me I never write down what that was it seems...) Anyways, I'm happy with git-svn past that point and I normally use a single checkout switching branches as I go. My checkout has a not so shallow history, goes back two years (r34165) and has full remote svn branch references as well. I guess I could deep copy it, remove all the local branches containing experiemnts, tar.bz2 it and make it available as a starting point for others? The current checkout, including the .git folder, is 650MB, compressing it it should go down to a much more manageable size. Afaik the .git folder does not contain passwords and the like, but I may be wrong. Anybody knows better? Cheers Andrea -- ------------------------------------------------------- Ing. Andrea Aime GeoSolutions S.A.S. Tech lead Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 962313 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://geo-solutions.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/GeoSolutionsIT http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreaaime http://twitter.com/geowolf ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list Geotools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
