[Tellico-users] Re: test git repository for Tellico

[Regis Boudin]

Hi Robby,

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 17:58 -0800, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As some of you may know, most (if not all) of the KDE software is moving to 
> use a git repository, rather than svn. kdelibs has already moved, for 
> example.
> 
> I'm planning to release Tellico 2.3.3 sometime around April 1, and then work 
> on transitioning the Tellico codebase to git after that. I've been working 
> with the tools for converting svn to git, and I have a test git repository 
> at git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/rstephenson/tellico.git You can browse it 
> at http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=scratch%2Frstephenson%2Ftellico.git&a=summary
> 
> This is only a snapshot, I don't plan to commit any  code changes to it. I'm 
> just testing the conversion. Among other things, the doc/ subdirectory is 
> back, but isn't built yet. I'm still checking on how the KDE infrastructure 
> will be handling translations and documentation.
> 
> But that's my first shot, so if anyone wants to clone it and take a look, 
> please let me know if you see any problems.

Cloning done. I'll try and play with it a bit

> Ideally, I'd like to go back and commit all the different versions of Tellico 
> before it moved to KDE svn. Since Tellico used to be hosted on Novell Forge, 
> which has since shutdown, I didn't keep any of the history. But I do have 
> all the old tarballs, so maybe I can figure out how to add those to the 
> history somehow. Any suggestions?

Hmmm, I believe the Debian git-buildpackage package has a import-orig
function, which can be used to import tarballs into a git repository.
Not sure if it can be used to only import and tag, and if it can be used
on a different distro, though.

Regis