Pugs

Short notes on migrating a SVK mirror to Git.

While mugwump++'s notes are concise enough, see below for an even more concise version suitable to save as a shell script:

mkdir pugs
cd pugs
git svn init --use-svm-props \
    file://$HOME/.svk/local/mirror/pugs
git svn fetch
rm -rf .git/svn .git/config
git svn init http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs
git svn fetch
git repack -a -d -f --window 100

Also here are a couple of useful aliases:

alias pull='git svn rebase'
alias push='git svn dcommit'

Note that I still think SVK is a great revision control system -- to me, its design strikes a fine balance between practicality and elegance.

However, with a 300MiB+ repository (51MiB under Git) and 20000+ revisions, the N in O(N) vs O(log N) is large enough for common operations to matter... :-)

Pugs now builds again from SVN.

Thanks to testing efforts from kolibrie++, masak++, moritz++ and xinming++, Pugs has migrated back to the public repository from my local hard disk.

Now all you need is GHC 6.8 on your system, and "perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make install" should take care of everything.

Note that the refactored-out parts like MetaObject and HsPerl5 are not committed back yet, so you'd need a working network connection during the build.

However, I'm glad to report that dcoutts++ is working on adding local repository support to cabal-install, and once it's ready, we'd simply commit a MiniHackage containing Pugs dependencies, and bundle them into something installable offline (and uploadable to CPAN).