Re: in -current is svn still canonical?

El día lunes, noviembre 16, 2020 a las 10:32:38p. m. -0700, Warner Losh escribió:

> For the supported stable branches, you'll be able to download via
> subversion and switch over at any time before the end of project support
> for the branch.
> 
> However, when you make the switch to git (either due to the flag day and
> tracking -current, or jumping from svn on a stable branch), there's no tool
> to convert the subversion checked out tree to a git tree. The needed
> information needed to create the git tree isn't easily available from the
> subversion checkout, so you'll need to do a git clone. If bandwidth is a
> problem, you can do a shallow clone that omits all the history and just
> grabs the branch of interest. Git is a bit more link efficient than
> subversion, which is helpful. Git also has ways to help you share one local
> repo across checked out versions, which can also help if you have to track
> multiple branches.
> 
> 

Warner, please forgive me my nearly off-topic question: When we move to
git, will this conserve all the FreeBSD svn history of ci's somehow? Can
you please point me to a document about FreeBSD's transition from svn to
git?

Thanks

	matthias

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