Git Migration Needs YOU!

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 2, 2010, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 01.03.10 14:45:44, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On March 1, 2010, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 01.03.10 12:54:34, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > On March 1, 2010, Chani wrote:
> > > > > -one of the blocker tasks is, uh, rather large. humongous, in fact.
> > > > > we could really, *really* use more volunteers for the svn2git
> > > > > rules.
> > > > 
> > > > yes, this is the key issue, isn't it?
> > > > 
> > > > here's the problem though: it is documented sufficiently.
> > > 
> > > I guess you mean in-sufficiently here.
> > > 
> > > > there are wiki pages on gitorious.org that are not linked to
> > > > anywhere, there is next to no information about how long it will
> > > > take, what i should be looking for to know i've ahieved success (and
> > > > what "success" is). essentially, i have no way of knowing how to get
> > > > started, how to target a specific module or how to know i've done
> > > > something useful.
> > > > 
> > > > this must be fixed ASAFP. can someone who has done one of the other
> > > > modules please document the process completely and thoroughly on
> > > > techbase (NOT gitorious.org!) so that others can help out?
> > > 
> > > Any suggestions where to put or structure it?
> > 
> > i've started a really simple outline here:
> > 	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git
> > 
> > and linked to it from:
> > 
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MovetoGit#Write_.2F_update_importing_rul
> > es_for_svn2git
> > 
> > feel free to completely mangle the UsingSvn2Git page in any way you see
> > fit :)
> 
> Hmm, I think I've added everything I know now to that page. But I think
> it would make sense to split it into two sub-pages now...

personally, i think it's convenient to have it all on one page. if it really 
gets out of hand we can start splitting it up, but keeping it simple (one page 
to point people to) is handy.

thanks so much for fleshing out this page! hopefully others can help fill in 
the missing details.

i'm on day 2 of waiting for the rsync to be done :/ it's a lot of data to 
move.
 
> Also the part about the recurse-action is empty as I don't understand
> what this is meant for/how it works. I've asked on kde-scm-interest on
> Sunday, but got no answer thus far.

hm.. hopefully someone in-the-know (thiago? :) can weigh in on this.

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