On 03/23/2012 12:51 AM, Joel de Guzman wrote:
Have any of you guys successfully used git-svn and/or hgsubversion with the Boost repo? Could you try and give me some hints on how to go about it? I'm not an expert on either Git or Hg and if a mistake/error will cost many hours of waiting, with indeterminate hit-or-miss results, then it's simply not worth trying.
There have been several posts on this list of people setting up public git repositories synchronized with git-svn for testing. Status of those are not known to me, but I remember trying to clone from one or two of them which worked fine. So I assume they succeeded in using git-svn. I have for my own boost repository used git-svn with success against official boost svn. It is slow, but has worked fine for me from a kubuntu box. It is slow with anything involving use of SVN, especially the clone as it is actually fetching all boost history (90000 + commits), but it works. I have really only used it to track trunk, and I have never tried to push as I have no boost commit access. So as far as a two-way system I really have no idea how well it works except for what bold statements you can find on the net. I have other tracked remote branches in my repo as well. But I see I see now that I have not fetched data into remote/release branch since 2010. That is probably just becouse I have only fetched trunk, nothing wrong with the tool. I find tracking multiple branches with git-svn to be somewhat broken, at least with regard to follow merging from trunk to release in boost. I have not looked into why that is so. It may be that I am missing something, but trunk fit my needs so I left it with that. All in all I do not feel like recommending an official git or mercurial gateway to boost svn. It feels wrong for many reasons. For personal or team work it may work OK. However the main reason is simply that I see no reason why the official boost repository or repositories should not be a git repository made public by the release team. That will just work so much better. I am sure Mercurial would work fine as well, but I have little experience with it so I am more reluctant to say. -- Bjørn