[PD-dev] Pd development with git-svn

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This would be good to have on the site, something like

http://puredata.info/docs/developer/git-svn

.hc

On Feb 19, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Stephen Sinclair wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to let you know that I recently did a git-svn download
> of the subversion repo.
> It took quite some time, so to save others time I thought I'd make  
> it available.
>
> I _don't_ recommend using this for working on svn branches, since it
> imported the branches a bit strangely due to the somewhat non-standard
> way the /branches folder is organized.
> However, if you're working off of the trunk it's fine.
> Also, you can easily make local branches off of the trunk, work work
> work, and then at some point when you want to commit, you download the
> latest trunk with:
>
> git-svn rebase
>
> Then manually rebase the local branch you've been working on,
>
> git-checkout <mybranch>
> git-rebase master
>
> Then dump in your new commits:
>
> git-svn dcommit
>
> More likely this is useful for generating patches against the main
> trunk to be submitted to the patch tracker:
>
> git-diff master..<mybranch>
>
> (That way even people without svn access can version-control their
> proposed patches before they are even accepted and applied.)
>
> If you're not at all interested in using git, ignore this message..
> I don't think git-svn is a good starting point for learning git, but
> if you're used to it and like it, this might be useful to you.
>
> You can download my tarball of the repo here:
> http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~sinclair/pub/puredata- 
> gitsvn-150208.tar.bz2
>
> Untar it and then do "git-svn rebase" to grab the latest changes.
> (I give a tarball instead of suggesting git-clone because git-clone
> doesn't copy important svn-related stuff.)
>
> Some interesting info..
> After downloading the whole svn history, the .git folder was something
> like 540 MB.  After "git-gc --aggressive", which repacks and
> compresses the history database, it was about 74 MB.  Not bad.. :)
> That's for the whole history of pure-data.
>
> Steve
>
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