From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 13 19:26:11 2007
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:26:11 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDE development with git
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>Is there any way to "back fill" the history that's lost by either of
> these options? =A0It would be ideal for me if I could grab the last
> committed tree and start hacking while a background process retrieved
> the rest of the history. =A0It would also be nice if clone, fetch, etc.
> would work *if* there was enough history, but error out and/or
> aggressively fetch the history needed to work.

Our Subversion repository is too complex for git-svn. It can't handle the=20
entire history without giving up somewhere.

git-svn has to be improved before it can import the full history.

So, don't try. Choose a starting point and work from there. If you need to=
=20
annotate or check earlier history, use svn or websvn.

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