[FFmpeg-devel] switching to git - eventually?

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 02:24 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:11:54AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 12:40 +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> > > - We must be reasonably confident developers know how to use git, or
> > >   there will be trouble.
> > 
> > Getting more developers to access the svn repository through git-svn
> > could be a good first step.
> 
> providing some idiot proof docs on how to set up git-svn with working push
> to svn would surely help here ...

I'd like to first have a setup that allows creating a git-svn repository
without needing to read every existing revision over the svn protocol
(causes unnecessary bandwidth use and load on mphq, takes a while even
over a fast connection). The method based on cloning an existing git-svn
repository over the git protocol that is described on the git-svn
manpage does not work with the currently clonable repository on mphq.
Either someone needs to find a method to create working local git-svn
repos based on the existing mphq repo, or a new repository has to be
created on mphq (I think the reason the basic recipe doesn't work with
the current mphq repo is that it uses local file:// URLs as SVN
repository addresses).