Re: Help debugging git-svn
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Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>
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- Dec 19, 2015, 04:31 UTC
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On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ok.... I came up with another idea to avoid having to deal with the > old svn history (I'm having no problems fetching/dcommitting with my > current repo). I already have the branches I work with, the thing is > that the revisions I fetched before I started using the svn authors > file have nasty IDs instead of human names. I though that I could > create a script to rewrite the whole history of the project adjusting > the usernames to real names (I'll take care of the details, no problem > there... just found out about filter-branch, could work for what I'm > thinking of). My question would be in the direction of rebuilding > git-svn metainfo once I'm done so that I can continue fetching from > svn as if nothing had happened. I checked the documentation in > git-scm.com but didn't find the details about it. Is there a > straight-forward document that explains how the git-svn metadata files > are built? > > Thanks in advance.
.rev_map files appear to be simple enough. I'll have fun with them a little bit. Will let you know how it goes later (don't hold your breath.... it might take a while).