I tried using the possible more direct svnrdump command (to talk to the github subversion bridge directly) and failed. It seems the github bridge doesn't support the svn webdav commands svn 1.7 uses. So I tried Beman's suggested commands.. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes@acm.org> wrote:
One of the issues that came up in the documentation discussion was the desire to extract still useful sub-trees from the old svn sandbox, and to move them to GitHub.
I've been able to extract my proposed endian library from the sandbox, history and all. Here was the process:
1) Created a empty repository named "endian" in my GitHub account via the usual web interface.
1.5) Create an authors mapping file that has lines to match your github account: echo "grafik = Rene Rivera <grafikrobot@gmail.com>" > github-authors.txt
2) From the command line, in a temporary directory:
git svn clone https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/endian
I added "-Agithub-authors.txt": git svn clone -Agithub-authors.txt https://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/sandbox/boost/predef
(Got a "Error validating server certificate...", and gave "p" as a response to the "(R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently?" query. The process ran for perhaps 10 minutes, but that was fine because it was successful at recovering history. And it is a one-time process.)
As I was experimenting I ended up running it multiple times.. And it worked the first time. Then after deleting/resetting it stopped working subsequent times. Even after trying the exact initial command. So it seems it's rather fragile? cd endian
git branch -d git-svn
It error-ed for me at that point.
git push --mirror git@github.com:Beman/endian.git
I pushed the repo anyway, using the HTTPS protocol: git push --mirror https://github.com/grafikrobot/boost-predef.git That's it! The git branch command deletes the git-svn branch, which is
an artifact of the conversion process.
Finish off by cloning the library in its permanent local location:
cd permanent-local-location git clone git@github.com:Beman/endian.git
I wouldn't bother with this part for documentation. As it's just using git. I sure hope there's a better way to do this.. As I can't seem to make it work more than once. And if it can't be replicated.. I wouldn't recommend this procedure. I have to say.. I keep being underwhelmed by git :-\ -- -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo