[Geany-devel] geany on github; why not?

[Jiří Techet]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 13:17, Thomas Martitz
<thomas.martitz at student.htw-berlin.de> wrote:
> Am 28.08.2011 23:33, schrieb Jiří Techet:
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 20:50, Frank Lanitz<frank at frank.uvena.de>  wrote:
>>>
>>> So I suggest this: Jiri can you help to do so (or does maybe the github
>>> svn clone tools does this correct?) we surely can also offer something like
>>> that from git.geany.org. But here import is needed FMPOV.
>>
>> I could, but it needs some manual work and I'd like to do it just
>> before the switch because I'm not sure if I could easily add  the
>> commits (commits on different branches and especially merges) you do
>> between now and the switch. I was too missing a few committer names -
>> see the original email here
>>
>> http://lists.uvena.de/geany-devel/2010-June/002672.html
>>
>> which I'd need to get first before performing the conversion.
>>
>
> I could also ask the one that successfully converted our Rockbox svn repo to
> git, including proper branch, tag and author conversion, to write up the
> steps it needed. I think it was less than a day of work for him (and the
> Rockbox tree and history is considerably larger and more complicated than
> Geany's).

I expect the whole conversion of Geany's vcs wouldn't take more than 4
hours. I believe I know enough to perform the complete conversion
myself but of course it would be useful to know someone else's
experience.

Cheers,
Jiri