Thanks for the information. It seems that using git-svn is more suited for working locally, and then commiting back to the svn repos, or as an easy way to stay in-sync with the main repos (like you do).
For now, I will stick to straight svn (or straight git) because I don't know enough about git and don't want to break things! thanks, Etienne On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: > On 06/10/11 20:45, Etienne Tourigny wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mate...@loskot.net> wrote: >>> On 06/10/11 20:26, Etienne Tourigny wrote: >>>> >>>> Is it possible as a commiter to use a single local git repository that >>>> can be used for both the official svn (for commits) and also in github >>>> (to interact with other contributors)? >>>> From your instructions it looks doable, but can you push and pull to >>>> the github repos, and then commit changes back to gdal svn? >>> >>> It is possible to have stream data in both directions, from and to svn, >>> so to push changes back from git and svn. However, I don't do that. >>> AFAIK, the process is fragile. >> >> Mat, your instructions seem to indicate that it is possible. How >> fragile is it, and do you know any source of documentation I can look >> into for that? > > I don't know how fragile it is as I haven't worked according to this > workflow. I only copied what I have learned from reading various > resources. However, I call it fragile, because to use git svn safely in > workflow that synchronises projects in both ways, in-depth understanding > of SVN and Git is necessary, IMHO. Especially understanding of Git > because Git is such a powerful tool that it is possible to do things in > many ways. > Otherwise, it is easy to break things. > > Here are the two resources I can recommend: > > http://learn.github.com/p/git-svn.html > > http://progit.org/book/ch8-1.html > > If you look at the last sections of both, it is "Rules and Guidelines" > and "Git-Svn Summary", you will notice quite a number of "health and > safety" rules included in those fairly short paragraphs. > This tells me, it is easy to blow things up. > > Best regards, > > -- > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net > Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org > Member of ACCU, http://accu.org > _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
