Any chance of a git/github migration?

[KLS]

How many serious developers use Windows? A lot.

There aren't many servers hosted on Windows though. It is vastly easier to develop and debug under though. Also I mention it as something to consider not as a deal breaker.

[Vexyl]

Originally Posted by KLS

How many serious developers use Windows? A lot.

There aren't many servers hosted on Windows though. It is vastly easier to develop and debug under though. Also I mention it as something to consider not as a deal breaker.

I disagree. I think it greatly depends on a person's experience, and what they're used to.
Linux and development tools designed for it are very powerful, and with experience with them, one can develop just as easily as someone with experience on Windows.

Some of the most commonly used tools on Linux may not be quite as intuitive as their Window's counterparts, but there are more user-friendly tools out there.
Even with the aforementioned tools an experienced developer can work quickly and efficiently.

It's simply a matter of what you're most comfortable with.

[addingice]

As a developer in a windows shop, let me tell you, we use git. It's passed the point where it was to painful to use on windows. That being said hg *is* still nicer to use on windows. not by a whole lot, but it is.

I just think the git ecosystem makes it superior to hg is all. github is a great example of why.

Git Gui, giggle, tortoiseGit, git visual studio plugin, ect..

[KLS]

I think we'll probably go with git. Not sure if we're going to do a total repo conversion or just leave the old svn one up if someone wants to see the history. I've taken a crack at conversion and it is definitely not a quick process.

[addingice]

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[demonstar55]

Originally Posted by KLS

I think we'll probably go with git. Not sure if we're going to do a total repo conversion or just leave the old svn one up if someone wants to see the history. I've taken a crack at conversion and it is definitely not a quick process.

https://github.com/mackal/projecteqemu this took a few hours to do.


Just ran:

$ git svn clone --stdlayout https://projectname.googlecode.com/svn projectname
$ git for-each-ref refs/remotes | cut -d / -f 3- | grep -v @ | while read branchname; do git branch "$branchname" "refs/remotes/$branchname"; git branch -r -d "$branchname"; done

I then just deleted the other old branches a that showed up so there were only the ones that you see on Google Code (git branch -D <name>)

$ git remote add origin git@github.com:GITHUB_USERNAME/REPO_NAME.git
git push origin --all

Some other links: https://code.google.com/p/support/wi...ertingSvnToGit
http://git-scm.com/book/ch8-2.html
https://help.github.com/articles/imp...rom-subversion

Also: https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git would probably be better than what I did, but gentoo's svn2git appears to be a different project and after I emerged that it wouldn't work so I did what I posted above :P

[KLS]

Yeah was using svn2git, but was taking a long time (45 minutes just for a handful of revisions on my admittedly slow Linux box). Problem is they are busy bees right now with RoF so wanna minimize disruption even for a few hours =/

[demonstar55]

Originally Posted by KLS

Yeah was using svn2git, but was taking a long time (45 minutes just for a handful of revisions on my admittedly slow Linux box). Problem is they are busy bees right now with RoF so wanna minimize disruption even for a few hours =/

poking around, probably the best bet is to set a day to convert (or maybe whenever your cmake branch is done) and merge the cmake branch to trunk and just do: svn2git http://projecteqemu.googlecode.com/svn --nobranches --notags --revision #

this will sadly throw away all the history, but we can always have that archived on Google Code. doing svn2git http://projecteqemu.googlecode.com/svn --nobranches --notags --revision 2389 took me 30 mins to get it up on github. (doing a full history preservation took probably almost 2 hours, and I had to do more work with deleting old branches that popped back up)

[demonstar55]

And Git for VS was announced :P

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GitForVisualStudioTFS