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Hi all, |
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A bunch of Gentoo devs and git experts had a great discussion about |
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sorting out some of the remaining major issues blocking Gentoo's git |
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conversion at the GSoC mentor summit. We posted notes online, so take a |
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look if you're interested [1]. The main things we talked about were |
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commit signing and repository layout, but a number of other blockers and |
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related issues came up. |
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On a related note, based on reading about the PostgreSQL git migration |
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[2], I gave the fromcvs [3] tool a try. My main motivation was that it |
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does incremental updates, so we don't need to do a full conversion from |
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scratch every time we want a current git repo from CVS. |
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It was awesome. It took 2 hours to finish a full conversion and repack. |
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An incremental update after 2 days worth of commits took 2 minutes! |
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Nicely, it accepts a standard cvsimport-format authors file, and I've |
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got a script to generate that from userinfo.xml [4]. After a few manual |
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fixes to the authors listing, it worked great. I have an updated |
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gentoo-x86.git repo but held off on posting it anywhere public, since I |
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don't have a good place to put it. If anyone else wants the authors |
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file, let me know and I'll send it to you. |
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1. http://etherpad.osuosl.org/gsoc-gentoo-dev |
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2. http://lwn.net/Articles/409635/ |
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3. http://ww2.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/hg/fromcvs/ |
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4. http://dev.gentoo.org/~dberkholz/scripts/git_authors |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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