[dcmf] RE: [MPICH2 Req #3926] Open source release of the BGP changes to MPICH2

[Joe Ratterman]

Hello,

I am the one who has been maintaining the imports of the releases into
git for merging.  We use the "maint/updatefiles" script to regenerate
all the simplemake build files, so we don't want all the files that
used to be listed in the cvsignore files.  To that end, we had a
script that would find all the files in the .cvsignore list and delete
them before importing.  This worked well on previous releases, but now
there are no .cvsignore files.

Looking in the svn directories, I see that ".svn/dir-prop-base"
appears to have the same information.  Therefore, I would like to try
to import off an svn checkout.  **Is there a way to check out exactly
1.0.7r1 from svn?**  I'm very new to the tool and I assume that with
some searching I could figure something out, but I'm hoping you all
know the right way.

I'm also going to look into the git-svn tool that will hopefully allow
us to import directly from your server.

Thanks,
Joe Ratterman
jratt at us.ibm.com


On Feb 16, 2008 12:28 PM, Pavan Balaji <balaji at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> > Git might be able to do something clever with the SVN history to ease
> > the merge:
> >
> > https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/mpi/mpich2/branches/release/MPICH2_1_0_7/
>
> I should probably point out that there have been some changes before we
> migrated to SVN after the 1.0.6p1 release, which the SVN server does not
> have. So, completely relying on automated tools might miss out a few
> (likely trivial) changes.
>
> If you would like to take "help" from existing tools that manage git and
> SVN, there is a utility called git-svn which allows you to use a GIT
> client with an SVN server (like at Argonne). But I'm not sure if it
> supports merging an existing git code base with git-svn code, but you
> can try.
>
>   -- Pavan
>
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> Pavan Balaji
> http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji
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