Re: Creating a git-svn copy of the repository

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 10:38 -0500, Travis Swicegood wrote:
> While we don't need an official repository that people can push to, I 
> think having one that they can pull from that already is connected to 
> PHP's SVN server like Mono[1] would be great.  Mono claims its a two day 
> process to import their entire history.  Based on the size of Mono and 
> my own personal experience, I would put the 270k commits to php-src at 
> somewhere around 5 - 6 days worth of CPU time to import.

I do that currently 4 times a day from CVS see git.chinstrap.eu (while
the tree is currently broken since the import fails to recognize some
bad tags from CVS (same tag applied on different days to different
places))

BUT: We should focus on the main thing not waste time on fancy stuff the
aim is to build a good infrastructure for PHP and active PHP developers
not using the shiny stuff ....

> What's the timeline for rolling out the new SVN server for public 
> consumption?  I'll be happy to help setup the Git repo, but this next 
> two weeks is going to be crazy for me with a new job.

two weeks is impossible - I guess it takes a month to properly analyze
the current infrastructure including integration of different build
stuff, web site publishing tools, .... and checking what is still
needed, which things might better be replaced by other stuff and so on.
So if the migration is done in half a year it as really fast.

We're talking about nearly 15 years of CVS usage to be replaced...

johannes