Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:13:27 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: in -current is svn still canonical? Message-ID: <20201117061327.GA2478@r314251-amd64> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfo%2Bk7bW=AepkDFUYQsQC3DqMAYsJKDxR-D9D=eyRKX97w@mail.gmail.com> References: <X7L02oCA1yveimZD@rpi4.local> <5fb33a11.1c69fb81.2d2a6.f92eSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <CANCZdfqb7TqhZA4yAVChyKhez5sxuhb-nYYbTP3DcsJKdk%2BFRw@mail.gmail.com> <5fb35900.1c69fb81.7679c.a50eSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING@mx.google.com> <CANCZdfo%2Bk7bW=AepkDFUYQsQC3DqMAYsJKDxR-D9D=eyRKX97w@mail.gmail.com>
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El día lunes, noviembre 16, 2020 a las 10:32:38p. m. -0700, Warner Losh escribió: > For the supported stable branches, you'll be able to download via > subversion and switch over at any time before the end of project support > for the branch. > > However, when you make the switch to git (either due to the flag day and > tracking -current, or jumping from svn on a stable branch), there's no tool > to convert the subversion checked out tree to a git tree. The needed > information needed to create the git tree isn't easily available from the > subversion checkout, so you'll need to do a git clone. If bandwidth is a > problem, you can do a shallow clone that omits all the history and just > grabs the branch of interest. Git is a bit more link efficient than > subversion, which is helpful. Git also has ways to help you share one local > repo across checked out versions, which can also help if you have to track > multiple branches. > > Warner, please forgive me my nearly off-topic question: When we move to git, will this conserve all the FreeBSD svn history of ci's somehow? Can you please point me to a document about FreeBSD's transition from svn to git? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub Без книги нет знания, без знания нет коммунизма (Влaдимир Ильич Ленин) Without books no knowledge - without knowledge no communism (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) Sin libros no hay saber - sin saber no hay comunismo. (Vladimir Ilich Lenin)
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