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From: Eric Niebler <eric@boostpro•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: help moving boost.org to git
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:51:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C321BAF.8020303@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C31F0D4.1040207@viscovery.net>

On 7/5/2010 10:48 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-05 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-05 14:16 help moving boost.org to git Eric Niebler
2010-07-05 14:48 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2010-07-05 14:48 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-07-05 17:51   ` Eric Niebler [this message]
2010-07-05 18:43     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2010-07-06 15:06   ` Raja R Harinath
2010-07-05 22:04 ` Finn Arne Gangstad
2010-07-05 23:11   ` Eric Niebler
2010-07-05 23:32     ` Avery Pennarun
2010-07-06  0:16       ` Eric Niebler
2010-07-06 17:27         ` Avery Pennarun
2010-07-06 18:00           ` Eric Niebler
2010-07-06 18:13             ` Avery Pennarun
2010-07-06 18:29               ` Eric Niebler
2010-07-06  1:46     ` Dave Abrahams
2010-07-06  8:51       ` Jakub Narebski
2010-07-06 10:34         ` David Abrahams
2010-07-06  0:16 ` Greg Troxel
2010-07-06  0:25   ` Eric Niebler

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