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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by vintagedave on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:34AM (#24859118)
Can you recommend which tool they used? Last time I looked (c.2018), the tools I found were not always reliable, or available for platforms like Windows.

I'd love to be able to use a dedicated transition tool of the quality FreeBSD would like and need.

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by jlgaddis on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:24PM (#24859769)
> Can you recommend which tool they used?

From [0]:

> The software used for the conversion is a slightly modified fork of svn2git, as used by the KDE project.

> It requires a rules file to map svn trees and/or revisions to git branches or tags. The current rules don't make use of tags but simply store them as branches.

> See the project branch at http://svn.freebsd.org/base/user/uqs/git_conv/ for extra patches, rules and the scripts used to do these conversions.

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[0]: https://wiki.freebsd.org/GitWorkflow

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by tannhaeuser on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:54AM (#24859354)
reposurgeon's home page is here: http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html

Haven't used it myself though; I just noticed that ESR has spent considerable effort in creating reposurgeon.

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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by vintagedave on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:20PM (#24859718)
http://www.catb.org/~esr/reposurgeon/repository-editing.html... is a wonderful read. You are right, ESR has absolutely "spent considerable effort".
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Re:FreeBSD Can Now Be Built From Linux/macOS Hosts, Transiti... by vintagedave on Thursday October 22, 2020 @11:58AM (#24859403)
Thankyou!
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