From: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@...>
Date: 2011-01-06T21:09:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34180] Re: Moving to Git?

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
<rr.rosas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Humm, that remembers me that even if you don't mind to have the strange
> checksum as a commit identification, it wouldn't be that easy to change from
> subversion to git regarding the Redmine site. The problem is that since the
> revision names will change, all the existent commit messages refering to svn
> commit identifications will mean nothing after moving to git and so Redmine
> won't be able to associate the commits with the issues, losing the history.

This can actually be solved in a number of possible ways without big
alterations to redmine, such as by tagging each svn-imported commit
with its svn commit id.

This can be done within the standard tag namespace, possibly with a
common prefix such as svnid/<someid>, or within a distinct refs
namespace. Redmine of course would still need to be adapted to turn
the svn commit id links into links to these tags, which is rather
straightforward.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta