[plt-scheme] could we have a git-svn mirror of the repository?

That pulls the entire svn history; I tried it and it died midway,
which is what prompted this whole post :) It'd be far more efficient
(and kinder to the servers!) for the maintainers to maintain a git
clone, and then let other people pull from there.

martin

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Evan Farrer <farrer at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I've found that it's sufficient to just use git-svn directly for svn
> projects.  The major differences between git-svn on a svn repository and
> using git on a git repository is using git-svn dcommit instead of push
> and git svn rebase instead of pull.
>
> I haven't tried it but I suspect this will just work.
>    git svn clone http://svn.plt-scheme.org/plt -T trunk -b branches -t tags
>
> Evan
>
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 07:23:22PM +0530, Martin DeMello wrote:
>> Github has support for importing of an existing public svn repository.
>> Seems like the best way to go - they have an excellent setup for
>> managing git repositories, and are one of the default open source
>> project sites these days. I asked on stackoverflow how I might do such
>> a thing myself and both responses I got said 'just use github'. The
>> best workflow I can think of is:
>>
>> 1. Let github do the import
>> 2. Do a local checkout of the github repo
>> 3. Have an svn post-commit hook to rebase your local repo and then
>> push it to github
>>
>> martin
>>
>> p.s. keeping this on list so that other people can chime in with
>> possible better suggestions
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