Re: Moving to git

Hi,

Sorry for being a bit in a rush. My name is Kjetil Nygård, and I'm a
norwegian. My strongest and weakest attribute is my impatience.

I have seen the discussion about moving to git.postgresql.org and/or
github. But there it stalled as far as I see. That's why I dared to
shoot from the hip.

My proposal is this:
1. Do a git cvsimport.
2. Upload it to git.postgresql / github.

When it comes to the concrete elements you mention, I would go for the
simple solution. Namely just do an import, and upload it. Then fix
problems as they occur.

Authorship is preserved with git-cvsimport. The authors could maybe have
been updated to username(at)somewhere(dot)com, but I would not say it is very
important. I guess that people will understand who jurka is anyway.

About keyword-expansion I don't have any experience. (We just ignored it
when we migrated from cvs to svn / git.)

Empty folders should not be a problem. They can and should be made by
the ant script anyway.

So my proposal is to follow Nike and "Just do it!"

PS: It's just a proposal.

-Kny :-)

On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 19:32 -0700, Maciek Sakrejda wrote:
> For what it's worth, I'll second this, although Dave's right--the post
> is a little presumptuous. Having worked on a number of svn-to-git
> transitions, the mechanics of preserving history are actually pretty
> trivial (git cvsimport / git svn clone make this dead easy), but doing
> the right thing with commit authorship, keyword expansion, empty
> folders, etc. is much trickier. And if you *don't* do that right off
> the bat, the entire "lineage" changes when you correct it later,
> making merges a nightmare (if you do them naively in this situation,
> you end up with two alternate timelines in the same repo). The
> transition needs to be done right (rather than running `git cvsimport`
> and throwing the result up on github).
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