Re: [ros-dev] Git Migration Newsletter

[David Quintana (gigaherz)]

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 [e-mail] 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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