Re: stale git repository on Savannah?

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Hello,

Per Bothner <address@hidden> writes:

> On 01/14/2018 11:17 AM, Gavin Smith wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 01:06:33PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
>>> If I go to: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo/
>>> and then click Source code -> Browse Source Repository
>>> I get a git view that (except for the gsoc_2017 branch) doesn't
>>> appear to have been changed since 2009.
>>>
>>> If I got to the SVN page and click Browse Sources Repository
>>> I get a viewvc display that does seem active and current.
>>
>> The git repository there was just for the gsoc_2017 branch. I have
>> copied that code into the SVN repo. I didn't disable the git repository
>> to show the git history of the gsoc_2017 branch. I could disable it and
>> it would disappear publicly, if it is too confusing to have a git
>> repository active showing out of date code.
>
> Well, the optics are bad.  To have people clicking Source code ->
> Browse Source Repository see code that doesn't appear to have
> been updated since 2009 makes texinfo look like a dead project.
>
> One idea: create a "bundle":
>
> cd .../repository
> git bundle create /tmp/texinfo-gsoc_2017.git-bundle --all
>
> and then save the resulting file /tmp/texinfo-gsoc_2017.git-bundle on 
> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/
>
> You can "unbundle" using clone:
>
> git clone /tmp/texinfo-gsoc_2017.git-bundle texinfo-gsoc_2017
> git checkout gsoc_2017

Sorry if I am opening a can of worm, but what about moving the main
development repository from Subversion to Git?  :-)

We could ask Eric Raymond to help with the migration if he has some time
for it.  He has already helped other GNU projects such as Emacs and
Groff to migrate to Git with a specialized tool ‘reposurgeon’ which he
maintains.

WDYT?

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Mathieu Lirzin
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