Re: migrating from SVN to Git

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Christopher Cramer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 10:14:36PM -0500, Matthew Fluet wrote:
>> Anyways, I'm looking for feedback on the decision to migrate to Git
>> and on the conversion.
>
> I already use git for tracking my local changes to MLton. I tried
> using git-svn but it was just too slow... was on the initial checkout
> for hours before my daughter happened to unplug my router and kill my
> internet connection. So I've been just using svn to grab updates and
> committing them into a git branch.

Yes, the latency with the initial "git svn clone" is a real killer.
For the SVN to Git conversion, I used "rsync" to make a local clone of
the Subversion repository, and then used the "--rewrite-root" option
to "git svn clone" to point back to the remote Subversion repository
(not that root rewrite mattered for the conversion).  On my home
machine (i.e., behind a cable modem), the "rsync" followed by "git svn
clone" takes about 20minutes, with more than half of that time in the
"git svn clone".

> I guess I'm not too interested in looking at the whole history of changes.
> So unfortunately, I don't have any opinion on all the work you did on
> converting the history.

I think the history is important.  Some of the last bugs that I fixed
greatly benefited from being able to look at the previous revisions.

> But anyway, git is better, so I think your plan sounds good.

There are now official mlton and mltonlib Git repositories at
https://github.com/MLton.

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