[Savannah-hackers-public] Re: Overwriting bare repositories' master

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 06:55:34PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Sylvain Beucler escreveu:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm trying to setup a git hosting facility, such as repo.or.cz. The
> >facility provides a pre-initialized git repository only accessible
> >through git-shell.
> 
> > repo_one$ git push 
> address@hidden:/srv/git/sources/administration.git \
> >   master:refs/heads/master
> 
> 
> Does this mean that we will get GIT support on savannah? Cool!
> 
> We're experimenting with GIT for GNU LilyPond, so it would be really 
> nice to have distributed VC with minimum fuss.

Cool. Do you want to create a repository for lilypond now? I can
create one; it is temporarily at http://cvs.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/ .
Beware, that's a ZETA service ;)


> If you introduce GIT on savannah, it might be a nice idea to import all 
> of the 'live' CVS repositories automatically into a branch of a 
> per-project/per-module GIT repository. Importing a sizable CVS repo 
> actually takes quite a lot of time, so having the imports done already 
> makes it a lot easier to experiment for people.

That sounds good. It will probably takes days, because there're lots
of repos, and SV is already a loaded machine, but automatic conversion
sounds very good.

It may be difficult to keep a GIT repository in sync with CVS until
people actually start using it. Did you already try a repository
conversion? Can this be done?

-- 
Sylvain