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Re: Comparision of Git & Bzr [was Re: Short HOWTO on using git for Samba

Subject: Re: Comparision of Git & Bzr [was Re: Short HOWTO on using git for Samba development]
From: James Peach
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:52:51 -0700
On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Kai Blin wrote:

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:29:29 James Peach wrote:

I mean we could start a fresh new repo in git or bzr
just like we did when converting to svn from cvs.

IMO that was a big mistake. We switched over too soon before tools to
migrate history were available.

We absolutely must have the author history, if only to maintain
correct copyright attributions when moving code around.

Importing history should work pretty well for git. When Wine moved to Git, we
managed to actually restore the history of an older cvs repos that the
development cvs repository didn't have anymore.

Yep, I imported ~240 svn branches into a git repository with git-svn and AFAICT it worked perfectly. This gave me a git repo of 510M compared to a svn checkout of trunk in 119M.

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