[Contrib PATCH] Add scripts to convert GCC repo from SVN to Git

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 11:34:34AM +0300, Maxim Kuvyrkov wrote:
> > On May 15, 2019, at 12:20 AM, Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Branch point corresponds to parent branch's revision at fork.
> 
> >  Why is it useful to have tags
> > at branch points?
> 
> This is to speedup git-svn, which creates uses such entries internally.  We need them for conversion's internals; I deleted them from github copy to avoid clutter.

Ah!  Great.  Looks better now :-)

Has it finished conversion yet?  I don't see all branches.


Segher