Comparision of Git & Bzr [was Re: Short HOWTO on using git for Samba development]

[James Peach]

On Jun 26, 2007, at 11:39 AM, Kai Blin wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 June 2007 18:29:29 James Peach wrote:
>
>>> I mean we could start a fresh new repo in git or bzr
>>> just like we did when converting to svn from cvs.
>>
>> IMO that was a big mistake. We switched over too soon before tools to
>> migrate history were available.
>>
>> We absolutely must have the author history, if only to maintain
>> correct copyright attributions when moving code around.
>
> Importing history should work pretty well for git. When Wine moved  
> to Git, we
> managed to actually restore the history of an older cvs repos that the
> development cvs repository didn't have anymore.

Yep, I imported ~240 svn branches into a git repository with git-svn  
and AFAICT it worked perfectly. This gave me a git repo of 510M  
compared to a svn checkout of trunk in 119M.

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James Peach | jpeach at samba.org