[avahi] SVN->GIT migration complete
Federico Lucifredi
flucifredi at acm.org
Thu Jun 19 09:14:47 PDT 2008
Hum, sounds like I have a good excuse to finally learn some Git!
Will see next week how successful I am with it :)
Best -F
Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 18.06.08 23:34, Federico Lucifredi (flucifredi at acm.org) wrote:
>
>> Hey Lennart,
>
> Heya!
>
>> could you keep SVN alive for a lil' bit longer? if you do, I promise
>> to get to the cleanup of my wide-area patch early next week :)
>
> Hmm, too late already. Bringing SVN back would now be a lot of work
> since I already made some GIT-only commits to the GIT repo.
>
> It should be fairly easy to move uncommited changes from your svn
> checkout into git: "svn diff" will create a patch for you against the
> old head of svn without contacting the svn server. That patch you may
> then apply with "patch" on a new git clone and checkout of your
> branch. Your branch is still available in the new git repo, so nothing
> is lost.
>
> It's really really easy.
>
> $ cd ~/svn/avahi
> $ svn diff > ~/the-patch
>
> $ cd ~/git
> $ git clone git://git.0pointer.de/avahi.git
> $ cd avahi
> $ git checkout federico
> $ patch < ~/the-patch
>
> or something like that.
>
> Lennart
>
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