[Kde-scm-interest] On Amarok Switching to Git

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:35:48AM -0600, Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
> > anyway, note that the historic (cvs) branches in our svn repo are still
> > screwed up. 
> 
> What's messed up? We've gone this long without trouble. :)
> 
lots of files are simply missing on the branches. dirk an coolo fixed it
up manually for the then active branches, but the historical branches
are of no value. i guess there were only a handful of cases where
somebody was bothered by that problem - svn branches are so hard to
follow, that nobody looks into them anyway.

> > btw, does any svn => git tool understand module moves within a bigger
> > repository or would the history before the last move be lost anyway?
> 
> Amarok was moved (extragear was reorganized at the CVS->SVN
> transition) and even git-svn doesn't have any trouble following the
> change.
> 
excellent.
level 2 would be auto-generating meta-modules which follow these moves
over time (so one could actually check out and compile a historic
version of an application which is less isolated than amarok), but
that's just for the extra-pedants. :)=