[Debichem-devel] Moving packages to git

[Stuart Prescott]

Dear fellow Debichem maintainers,

Looking to the not too distant future when svn hosting will not be an option 
for debichem and also recognising that there are vastly more people willing to 
work on git repositories than svn repositories these days:

On Monday, 8 January 2018 20:48:23 AEDT I wrote:
> Dear fellow Debichem maintainers,
> 
> > Regarding the Git migration I keep on wondering why you are remaining so
> > relaxed in general in the Debichem team.  I'd be seriously concerned
> > that you will be beaten by a non-functional VCS pretty soon.
> 
> Andreas makes a good point -- we've been slowly drifting towards git as and
> when a git user touches packages but I think it's time that we converted to
> git and we should get it done quite soon.
> 
> Given I've got the necessary tools and have the right config for
> svn-all-fast export around from the bkchem conversion, any objections to
> doing that en masse now?
> 
> With all the packages in the same repo, doing them all at once and then
> moving the svn repo out of the way is perhaps the best way to prevent
> further changes. Opinions?

… a first pass at converting all remaining packages is at

	https://people.debian.org/~stuart/debichem/

While these repositories can be cloned for testing purposes, this location is 
quite obviously not their final resting place and can't receive pushes.

The conversion often has rough edges but since fixing them can be rather hard 
to automate it's pretty common to not bother, leaving "good" to be "good 
enough" even if not "perfect". The resulting repos will still need to be 
finished off with upstream branches (or not) pristine-tar branches (or not), 
hooks (or not) and Vcs fields updated to either anonscm or salsa.

Please have a look.

These are based on svn as at:

Last Changed Rev: 7316
Last Changed Date: 2018-01-07 09:07:06 +1100 (Sun, 07 Jan 2018)

the svn-all-fast-export rules and authors files are there for the curious (and 
the necessary svn dump is at alioth:~stuart/debichem-svn.dump.xz for the 
overly curious).

cheers
Stuart

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