On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:23:24AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear Guido, > > Not much to add to this thread, except that this morning I spent one hour > searching how to use git-import-orig in a repository created by following the > instructions on > ‘http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git#ConvertaSVNAliothrepositorytoGit’, > and figured out almost the same solution after intense googling > (‘http://book.git-scm.com/5_creating_new_empty_branches.html‘, with the > --alow-empty trick being well hidden in the screencast…). > > I confirm that the --empty-upstream option will be a great addition, very > useful for people who migrate from svn-buildpackage: the direct manipulations > of the git repository internals are kind of scary for beginners :) Yes would be nice! I'm currently redoing git-import-orig to use fastimport more often, once that is there it should be even easier. I'm just lacking a bit of free time atm...
> In the meantime, if you do not mind, I will add a link to this bug report in > the above wiki page. Yes please do. We can even add a patch to the gbp documentation if that helps in the interim. A patch against the docbook source would be welcome. -- Guido -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
