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Re: [Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git
> On May 16, 2019, at 7:22 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/15/19 5:19 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
>>
>> For the official converted repo do we really want all (old)
>> development branches to be in the
>> main git repo? I suppose we could create a readonly git from the
>> state of the whole repository
>> at the point of conversion (and also keep the SVN in readonly mode),
>> just to make migration
>> of content we want easy in the future?
> I've always assumed we'd keep the old SVN tree read-only for historical
> purposes. I strongly suspect that, ignoring release branches, that
> non-active branches just aren't terribly interesting.
Let's avoid mixing the two discussions: (1) converting svn repo to git (and getting community consensus to switch to git) and (2) deciding on which branches to keep in the new repo.
With git, we can always split away unneeded history by removing unnecessary branches and tags and re-packing the repo. We can equally easily bring that history back if we change our minds.
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