Re: [lmi] Migration to git

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Fri, 20 May 2016 15:56:55 +0000 Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:

GC> Here are some miscellaneous notes. Let me know if I'm missing anything.
GC> 
GC> * Activating git
GC> 
GC> I've activated git here (access restricted):
GC>   https://savannah.nongnu.org/project/admin/editgroupfeatures.php?group=lmi
GC> so AIUI within the hour an empty repository will appear here:
GC>   http://savannah.nongnu.org/git/?group=lmi

 Yes, it's already there (and empty).

GC> I'm not sure whether we'll be able to import into that repository ourselves.

 We can push to it, of course, and, unlike with svn, there are no important
advantages (like it being 10 to 100 times faster) in doing it server-side.

GC> and they'll help us out if we make a mistake, e.g.:
GC>   http://savannah.gnu.org/support/?108709#comment0

 I'm not sure what could we possibly do to ask them for help with fixing
our mistake, it should be possible to delete everything and restart from
scratch without any outside involvement.

 For me the important questions are:

1. Do we want to have git-svn-id metadata in the new repository? I think it
   could be useful as there are quite a few references to the existing
   revisions in the history and they use just "NNNN" for them and not
   "rNNNN" or "revNNNN" which would have allowed us to replace them with
   the references to git commits automatically during import. And then
   there are, of course, all the references to svn commits on the mailing
   list too which would become dangling if we removed the metadata.

2. Assuming we do want to have this metadata, are we going to reuse the
   existing GitHub repository or redo the import from svn? For me reusing
   the existing one would obviously make things simpler and I, perhaps
   self-servingly, don't see any advantages in redoing the import.

 What do you think?

 Thanks,
VZ