Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Re: Getting svn branches back from oblivion

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 05:25:03PM +0100, François Revol wrote:
> I was wondering which was the best way to get back an old branch from
> svn into a usable git branch... (namely the gopher one)

If the branches were ported across then they're available in a hidden repo
which I can restore from. However I think as discussed on IRC, we'd not be
interested in the gopher support being in the main netsurf repository, even on
a branch.

> I was thinking either:
> - make patches manually from svn and apply this to a git checkout from
> the base rev, then rebase and push to the public repos,

That might be easiest for you.

> - or create a repos using git-svn, add it as a remote, cherry pick the
> commits into a branch from the base commit from master, rebase it, and
> push it public.

You could do that, but I'll warn you that git-svn is really slow and grungy.

D.

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