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

[Mike Swanson]

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 :-)