Re: git-svn: importing internal externals

[Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 01:25:43PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:51:29PM -0400, John Koleszar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm working on a one-off import of an SVN repo that makes use of
> > "internal" svn:externals; i.e. all URLs refer to different spots in the
> > same repo, potentially with peg revisions. The SVN repo holds a number
> > of projects, and my plan is to import them into individual git repos,
> > incorporating the history from any svn:external linked sub-projects.
> 
> I have started to work on exactly this, at fetch time instead of as a
> post-process.  I have for now only hooked parsing of the svn:externals
> properties, and just need to find the time to resume and finish.
> 
> My plan on the user side is to provide flags to map svn urls to git urls.

Just a quick note to make it public that my WIP on this issue is
available from the t/svn-externals branch at
http://repo.or.cz/w/git/ydirson.git.  Progressing slowly (as time
permits with a 3-children family and a real-life job ;), but still
progressing.

This is targetted at incremental conversion - if one looks for
one-shot imports, John's script is today the way to go.

Best regards,
-- 
Yann