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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: eigen moving to mercurial
From:       Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-18 23:20:10
Message-ID: d9f848520905181620i73c58ea6w90b0db7f844771e1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/5/19 Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>:
> Benoit Jacob wrote:
>>Initially we considered Git first but the git-svn bridge blew up on
>>KDE's SVN. Specifically, the issue was that we needed to convert
>>trunk,branches,tags from these locations:
>>
>>/trunk/kdesupport/eigen2
>>/branches/eigen
>>/tags/eigen
>
> That's why I wrote a tool to export from KDE's SVN to Git.
>        http://repo.or.cz/w/svn-all-fast-export.git

Good to know,

>
> It makes short work of the Eigen import. I probably have a year-old test
> import somewhere in my workstation. The only problem is that you have to
> download the entire KDE Subversion server (all 35 GB of it) before you can
> even start converting.

Ah so that wasn't an option in our case :D And it seems to remain true
that converting Eigen to Git together with its branches/tags was
virtually impossible.

Cheers,
Benoit
 
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