From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JWf8T-0002fa-Bi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:57:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65584E0057; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:57:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (crowfix.com [216.240.38.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9B4E02E5 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 21:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7810 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Mar 2008 21:57:13 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:57:12 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Converting subversion to git Message-ID: <20080304215712.GA7800@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 85b0fd7e-c697-47b1-8691-9a26674ce605 X-Archives-Hash: 00ffd704f89510ebc7abfb7223431c9c I want to use git on a subversion repository. I don't care, right now, if it is two way; I will be happy if I can do a one time convert and work off that for the time being. I have installed git, but the recommended git-svn program is perl and requires SVN::Core. Downloading Alien::SVN has an interesting note: It comes with a copy of Subversion 1.4.6 which it will compile but only installs the Perl and Subversion libraries. The subversion binaries will not be installed. What exactly does this mean? It sounds troublesome -- I can't overwrite existing Subversion libraries. Additional Perl libraries are fine. Does anyone with experience converting subversion to git know what is going on here, or if there are alternatie methods? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list