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Re: Trying to sync two svn repositories with git-svn (repost)

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
May 8, 2009, 20:44 UTC
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On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
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> The svn histories are about 1250 commits each.  The cherry-pickings are
> about 350 commits each.  This gives histories running in parallel for
> long distances.  Add to this gitk's tendency to change lanes at every
> occasion:  There's no chance to get multiple screen shots (the interesting
> branch/merge-points, as I described in the thread referenced above) in
> sync.  There's many opportunities to get confused.  At least for me, as a
> newbie to git.

I agree that gitk's lane-changing can be a bit confusing. Could you try making a slightly modified version of your script, where you only cherry-pick one or two commits in each direction? That should be functionally identical, but a much simpler diagram.

Avery
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  1. Josef WolfApr 27, 2009
  2. Josef WolfApr 28, 2009
  3. Avery PennarunApr 28, 2009
  4. Josef WolfApr 28, 2009
  5. Avery PennarunApr 29, 2009
  6. Josef WolfApr 29, 2009
  7. Avery PennarunApr 29, 2009
  8. Josef WolfApr 29, 2009
  9. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2009
  10. Josef WolfApr 30, 2009
  11. Avery PennarunApr 30, 2009
  12. Josef WolfMay 1, 2009
  13. Avery PennarunMay 1, 2009
  14. Josef WolfMay 2, 2009
  15. Avery PennarunMay 4, 2009
  16. Josef WolfMay 4, 2009
  17. Josef WolfMay 6, 2009
  18. Avery PennarunMay 6, 2009
  19. Josef WolfMay 6, 2009
  20. Avery PennarunMay 8, 2009
  21. Josef WolfMay 8, 2009
  22. Josef WolfMay 13, 2009
  23. Avery PennarunMay 13, 2009
  24. Josef WolfMay 13, 2009
  25. Avery PennarunMay 14, 2009
  26. Josef WolfMay 14, 2009
  27. Avery PennarunMay 14, 2009
  28. Josef WolfMay 15, 2009
  29. Avery PennarunMay 15, 2009
  30. Josef WolfMay 17, 2009
  31. Josef WolfMay 20, 2009

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