[Bioc-devel] Git-SVN bridge: Alternative to get commit history?

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On September 21, 2014 1:07:29 PM PDT, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> wrote:
>A few questions about the Bioconductor Git-SVN bridge:
>
>Q1. Is it safe to add, delete, add, delete, add, ... a bridge over and
>over for the same package and GitHub repository?  Not that I want to
>do it, but I wonder if I had to, will I break something?
>

I don't know why you'd want to. It will add a lot of cruft to the commit logs but should be safe. 

>Q2. Can you change the "SVN / Git wins unconditionally" setting for an
>existing bridge, or do you just delete it and the recreate it?
>

That setting only applies to resolving conflicts during the initial bridge creation. 


>Q3. Commit history: In the past I've migrated other Subversion
>repositories of mine to Git using 'git svn ...' (actually
>https://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git). This was not too complicated
>since my Subversion repos were well behaving (e.g. had no branches).
>This allowed me to keep the complete commit history.  I can do the
>same to pull down the complete Bioc Subversion package history to a
>Git repository.
>(a) My question is now, could I put this on GitHub containing the
>complete history and start off with this one when I setup the Bioc
>Git-SVN bridge?

No.  See the first FAQ at
http://www.bioconductor.org/developers/how-to/git-svn/

Dan

>(b) Would that work and/or would it confuse the bridging?
>(c) If ok, should I use "SVN wins unconditionally" or will that just
>overwrite the whole Git repository?
>
>I'm planning to work off Git, so most updates should go in the
>GitHub-to-BioC direction.
>
>Thanks
>
>Henrik
>
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