[webkit-dev] Repository changes on git.webkit.org

[Mark Rowe]

On 09/11/2007, at 07:45, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 06:26:48AM +1100, Mark Rowe wrote:
>>
>> Yes.  My email about the Subversion and Trac downtime hints at the  
>> reason
>> for this change.  git-svn made a somewhat poor design choice and  
>> stored the
>> repository URL in every commit message, and relies on these URLs  
>> matching
>> the one that is configured in .git/config.  As we are changing SVN  
>> URLs we
>> need to rebuild the git repository to match.  This has the  
>> unfortunate
>> side-effect of changing the commit IDs throughout the history of the
>> repository.  We hope to provide more information on how people can  
>> switch
>> to the new git repository once it is in place later this week.
>
> Then you can keep your current git repo without any problem.
>
> You just need to change the svn url and add noMetadata = true in  
> [svn-remote]


 From http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html:

> svn-remote.<name>.noMetadata
>   This gets rid of the git-svn-id: lines at the end of every commit.
>
>   If you lose your .git/svn/git-svn/.rev_db file, git-svn will not  
> be able to rebuild it and you won't be able to fetch again, either.  
> This is fine for one-shot imports.

This says that without the metadata there is no way to rebuild the git- 
svn metadata after cloning from git.webkit.org. This would prevent any  
direct use of git-svn with the cloned repositories.

Am I missing something?

- Mark

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