> On Aug 20, 2016, at 12:47 AM, Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Lawrence, > > On 20/08/2016, at 1:24 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote: >>> On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:16 PM, Ian Wadham <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Qt and KDE moved from svn to git a while back. IIRC it was quite an effort >>> for a >>> few individuals to port all the repositories across and preserve all the >>> history. >>> They had to write lots of scripts and check all the results. I hope it is >>> easier now. >> >> We'll actually be using svn2git for the migration, so in a very real sense >> we have you (collectively) to thank :) >> >> https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git > > I don't know if this applies to Macports, but KDE did a lot of splitting of > SVN > "module" repositories into individual project repositories on git. For > example, > the KDE Games module on SVN went from one repository to about 40 repositories: > one for each game and library. This was to limit the overheads, for > developers, > of cloning git repositories in their local machines, but it made building > "everything" > (i.e. collections of repositories) a little harder.
Clemens has already done the work to write the rules that split and restructure our monolithic Subversion repository into git repositories, using the svn-all-fast-export a.k.a. svn2git program KDE wrote to migrate their repository. _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
