[Kde-scm-interest] git-svn import of SVN?

[Thiago Macieira]

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:58:33PM +0100, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> But that import is not the KDE.git supermodule we will have later. I
>> don't think it'll be a big loss if the KDE.git supermodule contains no
>> history (and, therefore, doesn't allow a checkout of the exact
>> revisions back in history).
>
>surprise surprise, i'm diametrally opposed to taking this route.

Which route? Importing as one big module and then splitting up? As opposed 
to importing in split modules?

What's the difference to you if the end result is the same?

>> The import will probably preserve the SVN revision numbers, so if you
>> *really* need to get the same kdelibs and kdebase state at a point in
>> time, you go by that.
>
>how convenient. *cough*

This can be automated with a script. It's not even difficult to write one 
to do it.

>> It wouldn't be impossible, though, to modify the fast-export tool to
>> write the supermodule as well.
>
>it shouldn't be even hard, to be exact.

Maybe it isn't. I have no idea what format of data the .gitmodule file 
should have.

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