On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:32:38PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > ... > 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. > .... Folks in that position might want to consider making the switch (for a given repo -- src; ports; doc) in two stages over a period of time: the first, to get an initial copy, then (the first of a series of) incremental updates. The duration of the first need not be especially critical. Of course, this presumes adequate local storage space. (I am currently testing my approach, using cgit-beta.freebsd.org for each of the three repos; the approach I am using is described in http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/repo-sync.html, in case that's of use. Please note that I am actually using both svn & git, relying on svn for now, as it is the Source of Truth.) Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill david_at_catwhisker.org Trump's continuing malfeasance is costing lives -- and 72M voted for this??!? See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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