Re: [ros-dev] Consideration for migrating from Subversion to Git

[Neal Gompa]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Mike Swanson
<mikeonthecomputer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>   On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 09:45 +0000, Oliver Schneider
> wrote:
> >   I have worked with reposurgeon for nearly three
> > years and it's the
> >  only
> >  comprehensive tool, I know of, to achieve lossless copies of a repo
> >  in
> >  another version control system. It even comes with a companion tool
> >  to
> >  verify the results and best of all it is a maintained FLOSS project
> >  (hosted on a Gitlab instance, btw). I can help if you choose to go
> >  this
> >  route to have a high-quality conversion using reposurgeon. And AFAIK
> >  ESR
> >  (the author) himself will also happily help out FLOSS projects like
> >  ReactOS when you run into trouble. He did the conversion of Emacs to
> >  Git, btw. 
>  Yes, I've actually already mentioned to him that I might have to borrow
>  his Beast to pull off the task. Any help that can come with doing the
>  process should be greatly appreciated :-) 
I've been fiddling with locally migrating the ReactOS code from SVN to
Mercurial in my spare time for quite a while. I'd be happy to help
wherever I can to get ReactOS moved to Hg (or Git, I guess).



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