Re: Git migration status upate

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Le mardi 17 mars 2009 à 11:07 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit :
> On 03/17/2009 06:25 AM, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > First I would like to thanks all volunteers that worked to prepare the
> > git migration. Really good job!
> >
> > Now that 2.26.0 is out, I would like to know what's the plan for the
> > official migration? Is there any chance 2.27.1 will be made out of git?
> > Do we have a diplomatic strategy to "force" that migration whatever will
> > be said on d-d-l? Shouldn't we announce as soon as possible that the
> > migration will happen rsn, so maintainers that are not used to git yet
> > can start training instead of hoping that git will never happen for
> > GNOME?
> >
> > Finally, as maintainer of Empathy, we are already doing all the dev on
> > git, using the terrible git-svn... That means that lots of contributors
> > have pretty large branches on git only. Is it possible to be warned 1 or
> > 2 days before the migration so we push everything in SVN branches and
> > get that code migrated. Otherwise all our branches will be
> > incompatible... In such situation I guess the only way is to export
> > every commit as patch and apply back on the new repository, right?
> 
> I'm sure you can fetch the old and new tree into one repository and rebase the 
> branches over the new master.

I don't think so, because the 2 svn imports will be completely different
commits. You can cherry-pick commits from 2 git-svn checkouts of the
same svn repositoy.

Xavier.