Re: help moving boost.org to git

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Jul 5, 2010, 14:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4C31F0D4.1040207@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C31E944.30801@boostpro.com>

Am 7/5/2010 16:16, schrieb Eric Niebler:

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> I have a question about the best approach to take for refactoring a
> large svn project into git. The project, boost.org, is a collection of
> C++ libraries (>100) that are mostly independent. (There may be
> cross-library dependencies, but we plan to handle that at a higher
> level.) After the move to git, we'd like each library to be in its own
> git repository.

You could use svn2git: http://gitorious.org/svn2git KDE uses it to split its SVN repository into pieces. The tool is driven by a "ruleset" that specifies SVN subdirectories and revision numbers that make up a module.

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