Re: git-svnexport

From: Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 5, 2007, 13:50 UTC
Message-ID: <e2a1d0aa0707050650m729018f0x9e355ed23e8156af@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <524f69650707031231y2ab7b9a3o7769f64b9876326@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/3/07, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I noticed a git-svnexport, but don't see an easy way to do the more
> common task ... export a replica (via svn) of a kernel directory whose
> master copy is in git (no changes come through svn, all changes come
> through git).
>
> The Samba team (jra and others) use svn and would like me to keep more
> uptodate the svn branch (which I sync manually now by applying the
> patches from the kernel git tree by hand) for the two cifs git trees.
> Basically I need to do something like:
>
> git log fs/cifs
> save off each of the commits which hit fs/cifs which are not in the svn tree yet
> patch and "svn checkin" each of the commits to the svn tree
>
>
> Has anyone done any scripts to --- export -- to an svn tree from part
> of a git tree?
> I don't want to go to having my svn tree as the master and import into
> git from svn.
>

If you're interested I (may) have attached a script I was using to learn how to import a git maintained project into a subversion maintained project. It is obviously a "play with this and try this out" script, not a production script in any sense of the word, but it might help point you in the direction you want to go.

The gist of the script is that I used .git/info/grafts to graft the chain of git commits from my other project onto the most recent commit from the svn maintained project (fetched via "git-svn clone") and then I committed the result back to SVN. All of the cruft around that is simply, "blow away what I tried before and start from scratch all over again" cruft I used when I was testing the concept.

hth

--wpd