[bind10-dev] Subversion to Git conversion

[Shane Kerr]

Michal,

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:02 +0200, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 04:34:48PM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> > * "Public R/O" is a copy of the Developer repository, but is
> >   read-only. When we have a security issue, we turn off the
> >   replication mechanism until we have made an announcement of the
> >   issue which can include a fix.
> 
> We turn off replication of security branches only, not the others where we keep
> working on stuff like performance, new features, so nothing is suspected.

Correct.

> > 1. Test svn2git.
> >    Run manually, make sure it is sane.
> > 2. Set up Developer R/W and Public R/O repositories.
> >    Initially set these up as on-the-fly copies, with all changes to
> >    Subversion pushed to them. (So the Developer R/W would actually be
> >    R/O in practice.)
> 
> I'm not sure if svn2git can handle this. I had the impression it is just
> one-time migration. There's git svn as well, which I use and it is able to
> follow moving svn upstream, so we might need to use that.

Okay, that makes sense. Thanks for the input (I have no experience with
this Git stuff, clearly). :)

--
Shane