Hi Michael, On Tuesday, 2011-07-19 23:26:48 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
> unfortunately it seems none of the tools that convert from HG or git > to SVN can create SVN branches with SVN mergeinfo (necessary in > order to be able to merge the branches back into the trunk). > > there are some tools to convert from git that can create SVN > branches, but they leave out the SVN mergeinfo; apparently the > intent is to maintain a read-only mirror... I didn't dug deeper into this, but conversion from hg to git should be pretty straight forward and then there's git-svn, would that be viable to import branches as well? > basically we have these options for converting to SVN: > > 1. convert full history > requires writing tool to create SVN branches and mergeinfo > > 2. convert trunk only, using follow-first-parent heuristic > with hacks where we want to follow second parent instead > > 3. no history in SVN, just check in OOO340 tip I'd prefer #3 and have a read-only hg/git repository for cases where one really wants to lookup history. AOOo needs to get its code base going. Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail preferred in all private communication. Key ID: 0x293C05FD - 997A 4C60 CE41 0149 0DB3 9E96 2F1A D073 293C 05FD
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