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[Savannah-hackers-public] converting gnulib: cvs to git


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: [Savannah-hackers-public] converting gnulib: cvs to git
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:21:11 +0100

So far, no one has objected to my proposal to convert gnulib development
from cvs to git.  If there are any nay-sayers, it's time to speak up.

I've just gone through the conversion process once more, and
pushed the result to the usual place:

  http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=summary

As before, the conversion took about 20 min, but that doesn't matter
because it's something that's done only once (or a few times), in the
beginning.  Once we switch, each change pushed to the master git
repository will be mirrored individually to the CVS repository.
That's what I do with coreutils, and so far, it's worked well.
More on that below.

======================================================================
Compare repository sizes:

  $ du -sh .git /t/gnulib-rsync/gnulib/gnulib
  14M     .git
  27M     /t/gnulib-rsync/gnulib/gnulib

======================================================================
Ensure that a checkout gives the same bits:

  $ gitc-sync-check $cvs_repo/gnulib $PWD|diffstat
   COPYING               |    2 +-
   config/srclist-update |    2 +-
   config/srclist.txt    |    2 +-
   config/srclistvars.sh |    2 +-
   doc/Makefile          |    2 +-
   doc/gnulib.texi       |    4 ++--
   gnulib-tool           |    2 +-
   7 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

All diffs look like this:

  --- git/doc/gnulib.texi 2006-11-24 11:33:58.841329625 +0100
  +++ cvs/doc/gnulib.texi 2006-11-07 20:51:40.000000000 +0100
  @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
   \input texinfo   @c -*-texinfo-*-
  address@hidden $Id: gnulib.texi,v 1.30 2006/11/07 19:51:40 rwild Exp $
  address@hidden $Id: gnulib.texi,v 1.30 2006-11-07 19:51:40 rwild Exp $
   @comment %**start of header
   @setfilename gnulib.info
   @settitle GNU Gnulib
  @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
   @syncodeindex pg cp
   @comment %**end of header

  address@hidden UPDATED $Date: 2006/11/07 19:51:40 $
  address@hidden UPDATED $Date: 2006-11-07 19:51:40 $

======================================================================

Does anyone object to my removing the $Id...$ strings from those files?
They will serve no purpose once we migrate.

On the migration front, one minor snag was that executable scripts added
to a git repository would not mirror correctly to a CVS repo.  They'd end
up getting added to the cvs repo without the execute bit.  Since that hit
me 2 or 3 times with coreutils, I finally fixed the offending script,
git-cvsexportcommit, last night.  Then, Junio Hamano (git maintainer)
suggested an even better fix, which should be checked in shortly, so
that's done.  I expect to automate coreutils' git->cvs mirroring soon.
Once I have a week or two worth of problem-free operation on that front,
I'll see about getting something similar installed on savannah so that
the coreutils git repository there is automatically sync'd to the cvs one.




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