[Kde-scm-interest] How do I convert playground/pim/kode to git?

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 11:15:15AM +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 03:13:18 Ian Monroe wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher at kde.org> 
> wrote:
> > > I would like to convert the kode module from playground/pim to git. It's
> > > more or less an independent module, which could live just anywhere, so
> > > I'd like to do that independent of the grand KDE git migration.
> > >
> > > Question is how do I do that? I read the pages on techbase and they say I
> > > need a copy of the svn repo. As I neither have bandwidth nor diskspace to
> > > handle that right now, I'm wondering, if there is an alternative. Is
> > > there?
> > 
> > You could use git-svn instead. Probably fine for something simple.
> > svn2git needs the whole repo though.
> 
> I tried that, but it only imports the history after the code has been moved 
> from kdepim to playground, so it's missing most of the history. I didn't find 
> a way to make this work beyond the move. Can this be done?
> 
supposedly, it will work with --minimize-url. somehow - that's what the
git-svn author told me.