[Pkg-fonts-devel] Creating a mirror of fontforge's CVS repository

[Rogério Brito]

On Apr 21 2010, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Paul Wise (pabs at debian.org):
> > I'm not an admin, Christian, could you do that?
> 
> Nope:
> 
> bubulle at alioth:~$ ls -la /git/                                                   
> total 2868                                                                       
> drwxr-xr-x  229 root root                      8192 2010-04-21 18:01 .           
> drwxr-xr-x    6 root root                      4096 2009-08-19 21:17 ..          

Perhaps you could try the following trick: "change" the repository of
the group to be git-based.

If I understand it correctly, it will create a directory there (and not
delete our whole svn repo).  Then, just switch back to svn and we should
be done, with everybody happy. :-)

BTW, I just RTFM'ed and my suspicion seems to be what is documented:

*   http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/FAQ#HowdoIcreateasubversion.2BAC8-arch.2BAC8-bzr.2BAC8-git.2BAC8-hg.2BAC8-darcsrepositoryformyproject.3F

*   http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/FAQ#WhathappenswhenIchangethetypeofVCSrepository.3FIsthepreviousrepositoryremoved.3F


Regards,

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