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Can you recommend which tool they used? Last time I looked (c.2018), the tools I found were not always reliable, or available for platforms like Windows. I'd l

• tannhaeuser 6y ago
  reposurgeon's home page is here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html Haven't used it myself though; I just noticed that ESR has spent considerable effort in creating reposurgeon.
  • vintagedave 6y ago
    Thankyou!
  • vintagedave 6y ago
    http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html#_the_ontological_mismatch_problem_and_its_consequences http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html... is a wonderful read. You are right, ESR has absolutely "spent considerable effort".
• jlgaddis 6y ago
  > Can you recommend which tool they used? From [0]: > The software used for the conversion is a slightly modified fork of svn2git, as used by the KDE project. > It requires a rules file to map svn trees and/or revisions to git branches or tags. The current rules don't make use of tags but simply store them as branches. > See the project branch at http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/uqs/git_conv/ http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/uqs/git_conv/ for extra patches, rules and the scripts used to do these conversions. -- [0]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow https://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow