On Saturday 21 March 2009 06:57:27 Tejas Dinkar wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I've cloned the entire KDE4 history of kopete (since r615086) at
> github.com using git-svn. The entire history fits in 14MB, much less
> than the 29MB of files, or the 44MB SVN Checkout. Hooray!!
>
> http://github.com/gja/kopete/
>
> Also note that since r932873, kopete builds outside of kdenetwork
>
> You can change the svn credentials using the script called
> git-kde-svn-addcredentials
> ( http://gja.in/pub/git-kde-svn-addcredentials ).
> This ties the checkout to a particular svn username, and can only be
> done once. (see below for example usage) Sorry, this does not work with
> anonsvn :(.
>
> Anyone who wants to use kopete using git-svn can just do the following
> steps:
> 1) Clone my repository (or fork, if you wish)
>    $ git clone git://github.com/gja/kopete.git
> 2) Change into the new directory
>    $ cd kopete
> 3) Download the script, and execute it to set the username and path
>    $ git-kde-svn-addcredentials <username> trunk/KDE/kdenetwork/kopete
> 4) Update the repository (this step regenerates git-svn's cache)
>    $ git svn rebase
> 5) Branch, and do your work :)
>    $ git checkout -b mybranch
>
> Please note that the script in step 3 removes the remote called origin.
> This means you cannot pull/push back to (my) git repo. Use git-svn
> rebase and dcommit to keep your repository up to date.

Please remove your fork from GitHub. KDE SVN is the canonical repository and 
creating forks on places like GitHub or Gitorious is counter productive.

Also, IMHO, you should have proposed it here first, and then instead, we could 
have asked about also testing Kopete with the KDE conversion to Git.
-- 
Matt
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