On 07/20/2010 08:59 AM, Ryan May wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Eric Firing<efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> On 07/20/2010 08:30 AM, Darren Dale wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Michael Droettboom<md...@stsci.edu> >>> wrote: >>>> We've seen this before. It seems to have to do with files that were >>>> created after the branching. While I haven't found a solution, it's >>>> been going on a long time and seems to be benign. >>> >>> Ok, thanks. >>> >>>> (And, yeah, making the leap to a DVCS would probably not be a bad >>>> "solution" to this problem.) >>> >>> I was going to ask when the transition might occur, then decided against it. >>> >>> When might the transition occur? >> >> Although I would like the transition to occur soon, it might make sense >> to let the numpy people do it first so that we can take maximum >> advantage of their systematic approach. I don't know how much of a >> delay that would entail, but it might provide us with a nice ready-made >> set of instructions, saving us from some thrashing around. >> >> If Mike or Andrew or anyone else proficient in svn and git has the time >> to make the jump earlier, though, I wouldn't object. I can't help much, >> if at all, with the transition myself, and I will need some simple >> recipes (very mpl-specific, like the present instructions for taming the >> svnmerge monster) for the git workflow. I understand the basic ideas, >> and work routinely with mercurial, but git will take some practice. (It >> is possible that I will be able to use hggit, but usually there are >> gotchas with such translation interfaces, and using the native system >> ends up being the better course of action.) > > I can't speak to what the NumPy folk are doing, but I can say that > moving the trunk of one of my small subversion projects over to git > was as easy as:
Yes, but there is a *lot* more involved in making the transition than just creating a git replica of the svn trunk. Eric > > 0) Create authors.txt to map svn committers to git committers > 1) Checkout svn trunk using git-svn (which results in a git repo) > 2) Push to github > > I was really surprised. > > Ryan > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
