git-svnimport

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
> > I was importing busybox svn repository to git but I got a connection
> > timeout after more than 19k commits... is there a way to continue where
> > the error happened or should I do it all over again ??
>
> AFAICT git-svn is better suited, even to one-shot importing svn.
>
> As it happens, I got interested in this project, too, and did an import
> some time ago.  For your pleasure, I uploaded it to
>
>         http://repo.or.cz/w/busybox.git/

>
> Hth,
> Dscho
>
>

> On 10/25/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> >
> > > I was importing busybox svn repository to git but I got a connection 
> > > timeout after more than 19k commits... is there a way to continue 
> > > where the error happened or should I do it all over again ??
> >
> > AFAICT git-svn is better suited, even to one-shot importing svn.
> >
> > As it happens, I got interested in this project, too, and did an 
> > import some time ago.  For your pleasure, I uploaded it to
> >
> >         http://repo.or.cz/w/busybox.git/
> 
> thanks... much better... I'm cloning your tree and I'll merge with 
> current busybox tree... ;-)

> FYI you'll have to do something like this:
> 
> 	git svn init svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox
> 	git svn fetch
> 
> to merge with current busybox (although I updated before I pushed).

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:04:29PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > FYI you'll have to do something like this:
> > 
> > 	git svn init svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox
> > 	git svn fetch
> > 
> > to merge with current busybox (although I updated before I pushed).
> 
> More than that, you'll want to:
> 
>     git svn init <foo>
>     cp .git/refs/remotes/origin/master .git/refs/remotes/git-svn
>     git svn fetch
> 
> If git-svn doesn't find a remote named "git-svn" it will assume that it
> has no information about the repository and starting doing a full
> checkout.  By copying the ref, git-svn will see that there are already
> commits with git-svn-id lines and rebuild its "rev-db".  After that, it
> will incrementally update for newer revisions.
> 
> That ought to save you a few precious minutes :)

> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > I was importing busybox svn repository to git but I got a connection 
> > timeout after more than 19k commits... is there a way to continue where 
> > the error happened or should I do it all over again ??
> 
> AFAICT git-svn is better suited, even to one-shot importing svn.

>  http://bugs.debian.org/436930
>  http://bugs.debian.org/447325
>  http://bugs.debian.org/447965
> 
> I'm not sure these are worth fixing, I'd rather suggest to drop 
> git-svnimport in favor of git-svn, and not installing it in future 
> versions.

>> I'm not sure these are worth fixing, I'd rather suggest to drop 
>> git-svnimport in favor of git-svn, and not installing it in future 
>> versions.
>>     
> I already proposed this.  The outcome was... silent.
>   

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> I'm not sure these are worth fixing, I'd rather suggest to drop
>>> git-svnimport in favor of git-svn, and not installing it in future
>>> versions.
>>>
>> I already proposed this.  The outcome was... silent.
>>
>
> Me too, and same reaction.
>
> So I vote we interpret that as, "No objections from anyone."

> Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter.com> writes:
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >>> I'm not sure these are worth fixing, I'd rather suggest to drop
> >>> git-svnimport in favor of git-svn, and not installing it in future
> >>> versions.
> >>>
> >> I already proposed this.  The outcome was... silent.
> >
> > Me too, and same reaction.
> >
> > So I vote we interpret that as, "No objections from anyone."
>
> Likewise.