Hello, Were you able to find the solution for this?.
I think as you mentioned, the replacement for svn externals in is submodules.To migrate history, we will have introduce a script which traverse through all the svn(git svn) history, and insert new commits in git corresponding to any change(add/modify/deelte) in svn:externals Br, Nisar T On Tuesday, 5 April 2016 18:01:31 UTC+5:30, Oliver wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks for your answer! > > 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 :) > > > We are using fixed revisions on externals, to ensure the integrity of each > revision. Of course during early development their are times, that no fixed > revsion is set, so the migration should be able to handle this by taking > the date to determine the most likely external. > >> >> > 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. > > > i agree with you, and personally i want to go away from > externals/submodules to something other like CMake external project or > similar, but i can't change the past, so until now i/we have to live with > that :) > > >> > 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... > > > until now i think we used it in a normal way - but i don't know what i > will find during the migration... > > >> Have you looked at https://github.com/hbt/git-svn-migration > > > i will take a look! thank you! > > regards, > > Oliver > -- 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 git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
