Coolness.

I look forward to seeing some new dulwich patches (they are using a patched copy right now).

You can see how the mirrors are currently created and updated in the vcs-mirror repository. To share in my vodka and whisky spoils for setting up git-mirror (which, despite idle threats to the contrary, i’m still waiting for) your solution should not disturb existing clones….

(And yes, that is a hg script you see).

• If anyone wants to buy me beer for Bazaar mirror, Git mirror, or the Mercurial mirror that people are begging me for then please remember… Spirits, spirits, spirits. (They are especially good at making me forget, which is handy after setting up something like git mirror The stronger the better!) 
• git-mirror.gnome.org does not make git.gnome.org any easier. It just makes it easier to try out git-svn on a GNOME project. (Some/all of these may be fixable with surgery, but the one way conversions will likely be quicker anyway).
  • The main reason is of course the polluted logs (filled with git-svn rev id metadata). I would resist any module having a Git repo with such ickyness in its history.
  • I didn’t have the data to provide git-svn with an authors lookup
  • What to do about the references to svn in git-mirror? All the branches have an svn/ prefix…
  • git-mirror ignores Bazaar metadata. Thats right folks, it says svn.gnome.org on the tin but the Bazaar users have already started upgrading GNOME to Bazaar with bzr-svn. Check out this. You’ll notice how commits made with Bazaar are somehow “better” than their SVN counterparts. When I apply someones patch with bzr-svn I log who it is from using the –author property. I want this preserved.
• The git mirroring process uncovered bugs in git-svn, despite its heavy use by the core GNOME hackers. Even one on GTK+, which is meant to be the thing that everyone makes a mirror of! So we will likely break other git import tools too. This is true of any DVCS, so my point is really “its never going to be ‘easy’ to ditch SVN”.

Lets show a bit of even handedness and community and not make choosing $DVCS like chosing $EDITOR. Git people, please try out bzr-mirror. Especially merging and branching stuff. Unlike git-svn, you can use bzr-svn as though its a normal, full blown DVCS. Blog about your experiences, let the Bazaar developers what they need to work on. (I will spit my vodka in your eyes if all you come up with is speed). Likewise, the Bazaar folks should try out git-mirror and see if its as good as they say, and tell them which bits of the UI need fixing. What do you find yourself missing?

Mercurial people: Take me to your documentation! What is the standard way to make a Mercurial “mirror” of SVN?

In the next few days I should be taking the lid off a loggerhead instance for bzr-mirror. Of interest is the search, which uses a full text index created by the wonderful bzr-search plugin. It’s pretty impressive.