Hi,
are there estimation about the size of a git clone vs. a svn checkout? I'm
afraid that I'll need to free much space beforehand...
Best regards,
Michael Fritscher
> If you mean your local working copy: clone into a separate folder, and
> copy
> over the files. Subversion checkout is only the current commit data, while
> git clones contain ALL THE HISTORY, so you can't "migrate" anything,
> because the svn metadata doesn't contain any of the needed info. Even if
> you could somehow migrate using a tool, the tool would still have to
> perform a clone, and would just import the file status.
>
> On 6 September 2017 at 23:06, Thomas Mueller <mueller6723@twc.com> wrote:
>
>> from Colin Finck:
>>
>> > Let me give a public update about our Git Migration Decisions after
>> the
>> last
>> > meeting:
>>
>> > * The migration of our SVN repository "reactos" is going to happen in
>> > September/October.
>>
>> > * https://github.com/reactos/reactos will become our master repository
>> as we
>> > want to take advantage of GitHub's Pull Request features.
>> > This means, all developers must register for GitHub accounts now.
>>
>> > * git.reactos.org will remain as a replication slave. If we ever have
>> severe
>> > problems with GitHub, we can switch back to a self-hosted Git in no
>> time.
>>
>> > * We will enforce a linear history in the "master" branch through
>> server-side
>> > GitHub settings. You may create and push as many branches as you want
>> and do
>> > whatever you want there, but when you want to commit the changes back
>> to
>> > "master", you can only do so over a "git rebase".
>>
>> > * BuildBot builds will get a naming scheme like:
>>
>> > reactos-bootcd-0.4.7-dev+344-5f3c53e2a-gcc.7z
>>
>> > That means 344 commits after the tag "0.4.7-dev" has been created,
>> with this
>> > particular commit having the short hash "5f3c53e2a".
>> > Whenever we branch for a release like "0.4.6", we will now not just
>> create the
>> > branch, but also tag "master" with "0.4.7-dev" to make this naming
>> scheme
>> > possible.
>>
>>
>> > More newsletters like this may follow when I have more information to
>> share or
>> > get the impression that some decisions haven't reached all developers
>> yet.
>>
>> Is there a convenient way to migrate an svn tree to git, or would it be
>> necessary to git-clone to a separate tree?
>>
>> Will the boot CD images be in 7z (p7zip) format:
>>
>> What has kept me from trying ReactOS is not having a place to put it,
>> considering ReactOS does not successfully boot from USB.
>>
>> My hard drives are partitioned GPT.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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