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From: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GIT vs? SVN (was: Re: Re: [RFC] Some sync control)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:53:07
Message-Id: 1169765330.14792.6.camel@onyx.private.gni.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] GIT vs? SVN (was: Re: Re: [RFC] Some sync control) by Markus Ullmann
1 On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 23:37 +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote:
2 > So to avoid thread hijacking, starting a new one.
3
4 What exactly is this thread you are starting about? Just letting us know
5 you did some random testing?
6
7 >
8 > I did some tests today and took sunrise overlay as testing ground.
9 > It has roughly 2850 revisions. As a blog recommended, I fetched the raw
10 > repo first to do the initial conversion to git.
11 >
12 > Then all I did was a
13 > git-svn init file:///home/jokey/sunrise-svn && git-svn fetch
14 > It took 5 minutes and 12 secs for me on a not-so fast box. Then I had a
15 > git repo that could do all the branching, file merging and stuff and it
16 > sends it back to repo nicely. Even a reversion of a commit worked perfectly.
17 >
18 > git log gave this output:
19 > commit a8c35b8efe130fca7e2c3bb0d589a2d251f381c3
20 > Author: ndansmith <ndansmith@12608f7e-a915-0410-b2f3-ce240db1b126>
21 > Date: Thu Jan 25 03:35:02 2007 +0000
22 >
23 > Removing old turl files in favor of surl
24 >
25 > git-svn-id: file:///home/jokey/test/svn@2856
26 > 12608f7e-a915-0410-b2f3-ce240db1b126
27 >
28 > So judging from this, I'd say we could use advantages of both. Those who
29 > wish git can go for it (the git repo, as pointed out on this list, can
30 > initially be fetched via rsync or tarballs or whatever comes in handy)
31 > and those who dislike git can just go with svn and be happy with it.
32 >
33 > Jokey
34 >
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36 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
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Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-dev] Re: GIT vs? SVN (was: Re: Re: [RFC] Some sync control) Markus Ullmann <jokey@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: GIT vs? SVN (was: Re: Re: [RFC] Some sync control) Steve Long <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk>