[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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