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Re: [Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git
- From: Segher Boessenkool <segher at kernel dot crashing dot org>
- To: Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim dot kuvyrkov at linaro dot org>
- Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 16:20:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: [Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git
- References: <E8A06A10-5BBC-4C2F-9C09-D5413B98D2DC@linaro.org>
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 07:11:18PM +0300, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
> This patch adds scripts to contrib/ to migrate full history of GCC's
> subversion repository to git. My hope is that these scripts will
> finally allow GCC project to migrate to Git.
Thank you for doing this.
> The result of the conversion is at
> https://github.com/maxim-kuvyrkov/gcc/branches/all . Branches with
> "@rev" suffixes represent branch points. The conversion is still
> running, so not all branches may appear right away.
What exactly is a branch point here? Why is it useful to have tags
at branch points? Why did you make branches instead of tags?
Only very lightly tested so far, but it looks promising.
Segher