Great info Michael, someone should make a wiki page of that. Oh, and I'm not going to make your life easier at all :-
http://git.apache.org/ :) Open an infra issue if (yeah right) you would like a ooo git clone set up there. Gav... > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Stahl [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, 29 August 2011 9:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: SVN clients: svn, git-svn > > > hi all, > > i've checked out the Apache OOo trunk yesterday and committed some > changes required to build it on my system. > > the official SVN client (version 1.6.17) likes to store every file that is checked > out in uncompressed form, which takes a lot of space. > > > > du -sh trunk/ > > 4,2G trunk/ > > fortunately you don't have to use the official SVN client; there are unofficial > clients that are a bit more comfortable, notably HgSubversion and git-svn. > > e.g. install git-svn on Fedora: > > su -c 'yum install git-svn' > > check out the OOo repo like this: > > > git svn clone --username=myapacheid --stdlayout --revision > > 1162287:HEAD https://svn-master.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ > > notes: > > 1. set up --username correctly! > > 2. if the revision range isn't specified then git-svn will spend a _very_ long > time looking at all revisions. > > 3. do not use svn.apache.org, but svn-master.apache.org. (see below) > > because git uses data compression this takes much less space (but the > repacking does takes some time): > > > > du -sh ooo/ > > 2,3G ooo/ > > now you can commit to the local git repository (but don't merge! git-svn can't > handle that). > > if you want to update from the SVN server use "git svn rebase", which will > also rebase your work on top of the SVN HEAD (conflict resolution may be > required). > > to push changes to the SVN server use "git svn dcommit" > > > Q: so why not use svn.apache.org but svn-master.apache.org? > > this is because svn.apache.org may go to either the master server or a mirror; > when i used svn.a.o and "git svn dcommit" to push my changes, there was > always an error and after every commit i had to manually call "git svn rebase" > and then dcommit again (most annoying). the reason is that the mirror > synchronization is not instantaneous, and so git-svn gets stale data from the > mirror server. > see also: > http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/WwUr9JnfRyrEj8hOH5jY > > regards, > michael >
