Re: help moving boost.org to git
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Eric Niebler <eric@boostpro.com>
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- Jul 5, 2010, 17:51 UTC
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On 7/5/2010 10:48 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Am 7/5/2010 16:16, schrieb Eric Niebler: >> 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.
I'm off to learn about filter-branch, tree-filter and svn2git. Thanks for the suggestions. More questions to come, I'm sure.
-- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com