[Debian-med-packaging] seq-gen svn to git repository

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 09/06/2017 03:12 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 02:55:58PM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>> I want to update seq-gen which lives so far in svn repo.
>> My plan is to use  gbp import-dscs --debsnap seq-gen instead of
>> converting the repository from svn to git.
>> Is there a better way to do it ?
> 
> Thanks for the attempt to move packages from SVN to Git.  We should
> probably force the migration a bit.  I'm doing it with any package
> (except r-* - at least for the moment) I need to touch.  To keep the
> full commit history the following usually works:
> 
>   $ svn checkout svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/helper-scripts
>   $ cd helper-scripts
>   $ convert_svn_2_git seq-gen
>   $ cd seq-gen  # check that debian/ dir exists - if not check logfile!!
>   $ git branch upstream
>   $ gbp import-orig --pristine-tar <orig.tar.gz_of_last_uploaded_version>
> 
> I only use
> 
>   gbp import-dscs --debsnap
> 
> as a fallback if the procedure above does not work.  The obvious reason
> is that the resulting Git repository will only have artificial commits
> from each upload but no real commits from SVN.
> 
>> What should be done with the svn
>> repository afterwards ?
> 
>   $ svn rm tags
>   $ svn rm trunk/debian
>   $ svn commit -m"Moved packaging to Git"
>   $ svn up
>   $ svn cp ../../njplot/trunk/README.status trunk/
>     # I just remember njplot - there are other sensible templates
>   $ vi trunk/README.status
>     # Add commitID of removal and new Git location
>   $ svn add trunk/README.status
>   $ svn commit -m"Document move to Git"
> 
> Just let me know if something might remain unclear.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
>         Andreas.
> 
>> https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/seq-gen/
> 

Thanks! worked like a charm. I remember I tried the migration a year
ago, but it didn't really work for me, the migration script just stuck
forever. This time all went fine. May be I should have used the helper
scripts from debian-med from the beginning :)

Best regards,
Alex