Moving to D

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:15:37 +0200, Russel Winder <russel at russel.org.uk>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 00:31 +0200, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> [ . . . ]
>> FWIW I'm quite in favor of a switch to git (even better if you choose
>> GitHub, as was discussed in another thread). I had to go through great
>> lengths to set up a private git mirror of the dmd repository, as dsource
>> kept dropping my git-svnimport connections, and it took forever.
>
> svnimport is for one-off transformation, i.e. for moving from Subversion
> to Git.  Using git-svn is the way to have Git as your Subversion client
> -- though you have to remember that it always rebases so your repository
> cannot be a peer in a Git repository group, it is only a Subversion
> client.  The same applies for Mercurial but not for Bazaar, which can
> treat the Subversion repository in a Bazaar branch poeer group.  There
> are ways of bridging in Git and Mercurial, but it gets painful.

Sorry, I actually meant git-svn, I confused the two.

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net