[Numpy-discussion] First shot at svn->git conversion

[David Cournapeau]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:16 PM, David <david@silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
> On 07/26/2010 05:44 PM, Pauli Virtanen wrote:
>> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:57:36 +0900, David Cournapeau wrote:
>>> I have finally prepared and uploaded a test repository containing numpy
>>> code:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/numpy/numpy_svn

I put a new repostory (same location)

>> Some observations based on a quick look:
>>
>> 1)
>>
>> $ git branch -r
>>    origin/maintenance/1.1.x_5227
>>    origin/maintenance/1.5.x/doc/numpybook/comparison/pyrex
>>    origin/maintenance/1.5.x/doc/pyrex
>>    origin/svntags/0.9.6_2236
>>
>> These don't look right?
>
> The 1.5.* are weird, especially the doc/* ones, I am not sure what the
> issue is. The weird one in svntags is because the tag has been
> "recreated". We could just remove them a posteriori, but it bothers me a
> bit not to know where they are coming from.

Ok, the issue ended up being a wrong regex to filter branches.

>
>>
>> 2)
>>
>> Would it be possible to get real Git tags for the tags in SVN?
>
> Yes, but the convertor manual advised against it, because svn has no
> real notion of tags: the git tag and and the svn tag may not correpond
> to the same tree, and it seems there are a lot of funky corner cases
> (unlikely to happen in numpy, though).
>
> One could just put the release tags, with a manual check ?

I transformed svn "tags" into git annotated tags

>> Some people have their SVN commit account in format forename.surname --
>> it might be OK to translate this to "Forename Surname" even if we do not
>> hear back from them?
>>
>>       alan.mcintyre
>>       chris.barker
>>       chris.burns
>>       christoph.weidemann
>>       darren.dale
>>       paul.ivanov
>>       tim_hochberg
>
> Sure

done

cheers,

David