{"thread":{"id":"13818","subject":"Problems trying setup git assistance is needed.","startedAt":"2008-06-05T22:03:00Z","lastAt":"2008-06-06T06:51:28Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Boyd Lynn Gerber","Robert Anderson"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"78828","messageId":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0806051545260.18454@xenau.zenez.com","threadId":"13818","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Problems trying setup git assistance is needed.","fromName":"Boyd Lynn Gerber","fromEmail":"gerberb@zenez.com","sentAt":"2008-06-05T22:03:00Z","receivedAt":"2008-06-05T22:03:00Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gerberb@zenez.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nI have been going through the various documents and I can not seem to find\nwhat I need.  Could someone either tell me what commands to use or where\nto read.\n\nI have as follows\n\n/master/cvs/\n/master/git/\n/master/hg/\n/master/svn/\n\nI download to the above the various source trees I need to work with.  I\nhave cron jobs to update the various source trees from the internet.  I\nwant to keep them clean of any and all local changes.\n\nWhat I want to do is have a working directory as follows...\n\n/working/cvs/\n/working/git/\n/working/hg/\n/working/svn/\n\nI want to bring into my /working/git/ the various source tress and have\nthem all managed bit git.  To meet the requirements for the various\nmanagement systems, I have to have their directory with a copy.  That is\nwhy I have all the working/...\n\nI have the enviroment variables set as follows\n\nGIT_DIR=/master/git\nGIT_WORK_TREE=/working/git\n\nTo start I have been trying to use git clone or the other tools to work,\nsuch that I have working copies of all the /master/.... in my own\nworking git directory so I can compare changes between them.\n\ngit clone /master/git/git /working/git/git\n\nworked and I am able to use the above to pull every thing for git, but the\ntools to convert cvs, hg and svn do not seem to work.  What is the magic\nto get them all in git?  I would prefer just to have the latest\ndevelopment and stable branches in my working directory.  But I can fine\nto the git clone of git from the docs.  Any assistance on getting\neverythin over to git or hints is greatly appericiated.\n\nThanks,\n\n--\nBoyd Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com>\nZENEZ\t1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah  84047\n"},{"id":"78872","messageId":"9af502e50806052351w71fbf437q4012e7607abe8b3d@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"13818","inReplyTo":"Pine.LNX.4.64.0806051545260.18454@xenau.zenez.com","subject":"Re: Problems trying setup git assistance is needed.","fromName":"Robert Anderson","fromEmail":"rwa000@gmail.com","sentAt":"2008-06-06T06:51:28Z","receivedAt":"2008-06-06T06:51:28Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rwa000@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@zenez.com> wrote:\n> To meet the requirements for the various\n> management systems, I have to have their directory with a copy.\n\nI don't know what this is supposed to mean.\n\nIt also doesn't sound like you should be bothering any environment variables.\n\n> git clone /master/git/git /working/git/git\n>\n> worked and I am able to use the above to pull every thing for git, but the\n> tools to convert cvs, hg and svn do not seem to work.\n\n\"X doesn't seem to work\" is not a good description of a problem.  \"I\ntried X and expected Y but got Z\" is how you should describe your\nproblems, with verbatim but concise cut/paste of X and Z input and\noutput.\n\nAs an example, did you try:\n\ngit svn clone /master/svn /working/svn\n\ni.e., the first line under \"Basic Examples\" in the git svn manual page?\n\nBacking up a step, though, the point of what you're doing is unclear.\nWhy bother with /master/svn, rather than just cloning the remote repo?\n\nBob\n"}]}