Oliver <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > our company wants to move towards Git and we are currently in the > planing phase. We want to have a full migration of all our > repositories so that we don't have both VCS running at the same time > for one repository. One of the main problems that we will have is, > that we use svn:externals and one requirement is, that we can checkout > any revision in the past and build that revision (for product > liability reasons and technical support). So the migration should be > capable of having all the svn:externals converted to git-submodules > and being able to have the right submodule revision for each past > revision.
It's very impressive if you are able to check out any revision on Trunk and get the externals *at the correct revision on their Trunks*. Then you must have some serious automation (or detailed manual process) in place :) Personally I find svn:externals to be an often misused feature; they require a self control I rarely find (or exhibit myself) to be used well. I tend to remove them wherever I find them. Your possibility of finding a solution depends a great deal on your SVN repos and the use of externals. E.g. if your various projects all have their own TTB-roots and all svn:externals only refer to locations in other projects (i.e. svn:externals on tags refer to tags in other projects), then I don't really see any theoretical problem with conversion. However, svn:external can be used in much more "creative" ways than that... > I read a lot on migration, but it seems this is just not possible. so > i thought about the possiblity to add this functionality to the > svn-clone command. Since i have all informations regarding one > revision in the svn i should be possible to do this. > > Now my question: Does anyone ever did this? Are there better solutions > for my problem? Have you looked at https://github.com/hbt/git-svn-migration /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. -- Mark Twain -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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