Waverous is now using Git
I finally sat down, rolled up my sleeves and converted Waverous to a Git repository on Google Code. There were a few things that needed extra attention:
1) I used John Albin's instructions on converting a Subversion repository to Git. It provided the most complete way of doing it.I had to do some detective work to figure out the names and emails of some previous committers, but in the end I had a repository with all the data I wanted including all branches and tags.
2) Getting all branches to the remote was not obvious, so I just did some rectangle editing in Emacs:
git checkout AUTOCONF_TWO
git checkout CONSTANTS
git checkout FLOATSUSPEND
git checkout HEAD -> origin/master
git checkout INLINEPC
git checkout UNSAFE_OPTS
git checkout WAIF
git checkout WROGUE
git checkout avalon181
git checkout demacrofication
git checkout demacrofication@233
git checkout experimental_automake
git checkout experimental_reorg
git checkout master
git checkout pavel
3) Then I pushed everything to Google Code:
git push googlecode --all
4) I found the tags didn't make it up either. This was another step:
git push --tags
The one thing I don't like, so far, is I have to maintain a
.netrc file with my Google Code password, and when I
git clone the repository I have to edit out my
username@ from the URL. But after that everything seems to work fine, though
git push just returns "Repository up-to-date" without telling me anything happened.So, from the top:
# clone repository created from John Albin's instructions
git clone ~/new-bare.git waverous
# add the new remote per Google's instructions
git remote add googlecode https://code.google.com/p/waverous
# check out all branches from my local repository
git checkout AUTOCONF_TWO
git checkout CONSTANTS
git checkout FLOATSUSPEND
git checkout HEAD -> origin/master
git checkout INLINEPC
git checkout UNSAFE_OPTS
git checkout WAIF
git checkout WROGUE
git checkout avalon181
git checkout demacrofication
git checkout demacrofication@233
git checkout experimental_automake
git checkout experimental_reorg
git checkout master
git checkout pavel
# push all branches to Google Code
git push googlecode --all
# push all tags to Google Code
git push --tags
# Clone and push the wiki on Google Code as a new Git repository
git clone https://code.google.com/p/waverous.wiki
cd waverous.wiki
svn export --force http://waverous.googlecode.com/svn/wiki .
git add .
git commit -m "Conversion of Waverous's wiki documentation to Git."
git push origin master
Overall this was a dumb brute force approach, but it got everything done.
Syndicated 2011-09-03 19:30:00 (Updated 2011-09-03 19:30:33) from Wainstead