[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Migrating some repositories to Git

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 01:19:18PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> [2009-04-30 02:28]:
> 
> > If there are no objections, I would like to migrate from SVN to Git the
> > repositories of the pkg-scicomp packages to which I contribute the most:
> > ann, glpk, qhull, and qrupdate.  
> 
> It is done for ann, glpk, and qhull.  You can browse the repos at:
> 
>     http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-scicomp/ann.git
>     http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-scicomp/glpk.git
>     http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-scicomp/qhull.git
> 
> You have also probably noticed the push notifications sento to the
> pkg-scicomp-commits mailing list.  The Subject header is tagged "[SCM]".
> The notifications are generated by the post-receive hooks in
> /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-scicomp/*.git/hooks/.  They just call the
> script /home/groups/pkg-scicomp/bin/git-commit-notice.
> 
> Translating from SVN to Git was done with git-svn, although the procedure
> is not completely automatic.  In some cases, it is necessary to manually
> change some branches and rewrite the history.
> 
> Please, tell me if anything goes wrong with the setup.

Can you document the perfect workflow with git? I have tried darcs, and git,
and bzr, and I am not really sure which to use for myself. I am still
struggling with building from svn (svn-buildpackage does not work like
darcs-buildpackage, at least for me), and I am not really a git fan yet.

Christian