[17793] in athena10
Re: Fate of Zephyr in Debian
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Oct 27 15:48:49 2021
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
To: Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu>
Cc: =?utf-8?Q?Alejandro_R=2E_Sede=C3=B1o?= <asedeno@mit.edu>,
Alex
Chernyakhovsky
<achernya@mit.edu>,
Debathena Trac <debathena@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 19:48:09 +0000
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>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Chernyakhovsky <achernya@mit.edu> writes:
Alex> I believe svn2git is not entirely garbage, and I did this for
Alex> debathena,
Yeah, svn2git is fairly good.
And if you're volunteering to take a hack at it, go for it.
Alex> so I would say we should at least try to convert
Alex> the histories before creating a merge commit.
I guess it depends on what we want.
I think it would be fairly easy to get a divergent debian history that
had no overlapping commits with zephyr-im/zephyr given the svn
repository.
That isn't very useful to me, but if that would be useful to anyone else
here, I agree it's easy enough, and I'd be happy to do that.
I think it would be hard to get a git repository that converted the svn
debian and lined it up with the zephyr-im so that each upstream release
also was a merge commit against zephyr-im/zephyr.
That's more work than I'm willing to put in.
But that's the kind of work where I think the conversion would have
value going forward.
