Author: tille
Date: 2017-09-22 07:58:23 +0000 (Fri, 22 Sep 2017)
New Revision: 24070
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Start documenting SVN to Git migration
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2017-09-22 07:23:20 UTC (rev
24069)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2017-09-22 07:58:23 UTC (rev
24070)
@@ -115,11 +115,9 @@
</sect1>
<sect1 id="repositories">
<title>Repositories</title>
- <para>We use Subversion (SVN) and Git repositories, hosted
+ <para>We use Git repositories, hosted
by Debian. You can have a look at
each repository through Alioth's web interfaces:
- <ulink
url="http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/debian-med/trunk/";>ViewVC</ulink> and
- <ulink
url="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?a=project_list;pf=debian-med";>gitweb</ulink>
or
<ulink
url="http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med";>cgit</ulink>.</para>
<warning id="umask">
<para>
@@ -147,7 +145,6 @@
</para>
<para>
For draft packages that
are only on Alioth:<programlisting>
-<command>debcheckout</command> <option>--user</option>
<replaceable><username></replaceable>
<replaceable>svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/<package>/trunk</replaceable>
<replaceable><package></replaceable>
<command>debcheckout</command> <option>--user</option>
<replaceable><username></replaceable>
<replaceable>git://git.debian.org/debian-med/<package>.git</replaceable>
<option>--git-track <replaceable>'*'</replaceable></option></programlisting>
</para>
<para>
@@ -194,8 +191,9 @@
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="svn-repository-structure">
- <title>Subversion repository structure</title>
- <para>The SVN repository is structured as
follows:<programlisting>
+ <title>Subversion usage is deprecated</title>
+ <para>The Debian Med team is migrating from SVN to Git
to catch up with the close
+ down of Alith. The deprecated SVN repository is
structured as follows:<programlisting>
debian-med/
└ trunk/
├ community/
@@ -215,6 +213,25 @@
│ └ debian/
…</programlisting>
</para>
+ <para>
+ If you touch a package in SVN you should do the
following to migrate it to Git:
+ <programlisting>
+svn checkout svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/helper-scripts
+cd helper-scripts
+convert_svn_2_git <package>
+cd <package> # check that debian/ dir exists - if not check logfile!!
+git branch upstream
+gbp import-orig --pristine-tar <orig.tar.gz_of_last_uploaded_version>
+vi debian/control # replace Vcs-Fields from SVN to Git
+dch "Moved packaging from SVN to Git"
+../inject-into-alioth-git # this should work nicely to inject your package
into git.debian.org
+ </programlisting>
+ In case <filename>convert_svn_2_git</filename> might
fail for whatever reason your last resort is
+ <programlisting>
+gbp import-dscs --debsnap
+ </programlisting>
+ Please help the Debian Med team with the SVN to Git
migration.
+ </para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="subversion-tips">
<title>Subversion tips</title>
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