From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
To: Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trying to sync two svn repositories with git-svn (repost)
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:53:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32541b130904281353k572fed5la468de65f73ccd19@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090427201251.GC15420@raven.wolf.lan>
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Josef Wolf <jw@raven.inka.de> wrote:
> I have two subversion repositories which I would like to synchronize via
> git-svn. [...]
What you're attempting is rather complicated. I guess I'd suggest we
back up a step: why do you want to do this? In what way does a "pure
svn" tool like svnsync
(http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnsync.html) not do what
you want?
Are you making changes to *both* svn repositories and then want to
synchronize their histories? This is basically impossible, since svn
only has a linear history. If you add commit A to one repo, and
commit B to the other, you will never make the histories identical in
both repos; one will necessarily have A and then B, and the other will
have B and then A. That's not really desirable, since one of those
two histories is a lie. If commit B breaks A, but it looks like A was
committed *after* B, then the person who wrote A will be blamed for
the error.
So, what is it you're *really* trying to do?
Have fun,
Avery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-27 20:12 Trying to sync two svn repositories with git-svn (repost) Josef Wolf
2009-04-28 20:30 ` Josef Wolf
2009-04-28 20:53 ` Avery Pennarun [this message]
2009-04-28 22:37 ` Josef Wolf
2009-04-29 3:19 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-04-29 16:01 ` Josef Wolf
2009-04-29 18:13 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-04-29 22:37 ` Josef Wolf
2009-04-30 2:07 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-04-30 22:28 ` Josef Wolf
2009-04-30 22:59 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-01 14:28 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-01 19:17 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-02 21:58 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-04 15:58 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-04 21:14 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-06 18:52 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-06 19:23 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-06 22:50 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-08 20:44 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-08 23:58 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-13 12:09 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-13 17:28 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-13 22:22 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-14 6:35 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-14 21:41 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-14 21:57 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-15 17:52 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-15 19:05 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-05-17 11:24 ` Josef Wolf
2009-05-20 16:40 ` Josef Wolf
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