AOO SVN -> git import tool

Mirrors the AOO changes to the LibreOffice git repository as aoo/trunk.

Installation

Note

You do not want to re-install this, instead copy it from the old location or from backup! Mirroring of the SVN so that you can start the migration takes about 1.5 months. No kidding, months! Really.

• Creating a new User before you fill in the /home/svngit:

  sudo adduser svngit
  usermod -s /bin/false svngit
  usermod -l svngit
  

• Copy the backup or old location to the /home/svngit:

  mv /home/svngit /home/svngit.save
  cp -a <backup-location>/svngit /home/svngit
  

• Install crontab:

  sudo crontab -u svngit -e
  
  and add the following line there so that the conversion is run every 2
  hours:
  
  5 */2 * * * /home/svngit/bin/svngit-full-conversion.sh
  

• Layout of /home/svngit:

  aoo-svn: Mirror of the AOO svn, that was created using svnsync, and being
  updated using svnsync synchronize.  In case anybody needed to re-do this
  (and could afford 1.5 months of waiting before the svnsync finishes), the
  instructions are here:
  
      http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/svnsync.txt
  
  conversion.AOO*: temporary files & dirs created during conversion
  
  git: reference git repo used a base for the conversion
  
  svn-to-git: The conversion tool itself.  The sources live here:
  
      http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/svn-to-git/
  
  bin/svngit-full-conversion.sh: The cron script that takes care of calling
  the svn-to-git tooling.
  

• Notes

  After the migration, do a test run of bin/svngit-full-conversion.sh , and check conversion.AOO.log that there are no errors there. If it ends up with an errror, contact kendy@collabora.com.

Responsible

Holesovsky, Jan <kendy@suse.cz>