moving iceweasel to git

[Mike Hommey]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 06:26:34PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote:
> Hello friends of iceweasel,
> 
> A couple of months ago I tried to convert the iceweasel SVN repo into
> git. It didn't go well. I ran it all weekend and it still hadn't
> completed. I think because of a bad cvs2svn originally wasn't the
> finest conversion, producing a lot of revisions. And the various svn
> mv's due to renames isn't helping. I don't think even if it gets
> converted successfully, it won't give a useful result.
> 
> So instead of just starting from scratch I think I will try to replay
> all the phoenix/mozilla-firefox/firefox/iceweasel source packages up
> on snapshot.debian.net to produce at least a useful history.
> 
> Anyone have any better ideas?

I'm actually building a tool to convert my svk repository for xulrunner
in a git repository ; it might be able to do the same for iceweasel.

Only glitch is that I'm not exactly done yet ;)

Mike