Moved to Git

clone2727 · Post by **clone2727** » Sat Feb 12, 2011 10:49 pm

After having hosted our source code in Subversion for five years (to the day), we have today moved to the Git distributed version control system, hosted on GitHub.

The new repository page is at https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm.

For users nothing should have changed, but for developers it should now be much easier to contribute to ScummVM.

md5 · Post by **md5** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:47 am

A long awaited move

NOTE: For people that just want to checkout the code without changing their client, there's a read-only interface of the Git repository, for SVN (Subversion) clients here:

http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm

So, for people who just want read access in order to compile the source and don't want to move to Git, they can still access the repository via SVN.

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 2:58 pm

What does this mean for those of us who use TortoiseSVN? I tried both links and neither worked.

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 10:28 pm

Like Musically I use a program (PySVN Workbench) to update.
I ran it about an hour ago and it updated OK to r55906.
I can still download directly from SVN in my browser as well.

I think some of us are confused a bit. Is it a case of for a few days the code will be on both SVN and Git whilst the change over takes place but ultimately there will be no ScummVM entry on Source Forge / SVN once the change over is complete?

Looks like I'd better look through Synaptic for something like PySVN for Git code. Maybe they have some sort of plug-in.

A600 · Post by **A600** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 11:11 pm

MusicallyInspired wrote:What does this mean for those of us who use TortoiseSVN? I tried both links and neither worked.

I'm using TortoiseSVN on a W7 machine and I had no problems with http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm

KuroShiro · Post by **KuroShiro** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:18 am

md5 wrote:A long awaited move

NOTE: For people that just want to checkout the code without changing their client, there's a read-only interface of the Git repository, for SVN (Subversion) clients here:

http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm

So, for people who just want read access in order to compile the source and don't want to move to Git, they can still access the repository via SVN.

That link works nicely, thanks, though for some reason it says it has checked out r43969. Any idea why that is?

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 1:35 am

That link won't work for me. It keeps giving me errors.

tsoliman · Post by **tsoliman** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:29 am

Don't go there in a browser.
Checkout using svn.
svn co http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm

Works for me.

fingolfin · Post by **fingolfin** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 7:57 am

To clarify: The old SVN repository will still be around for some time, but it doesn't receive updates anymore. We'll soon remove its content (the repository will still stay, for technical reasons, but its content will be gone).

The new repository is using *git* as announced.

The "SVN repository" at http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm is a so-called "bridge" which allows accessing our new code repository with an old SVN client. Its revision numbers have nothing to do whatsoever with the revision numbers in our old SVN repository. This is why they are lower than the revisions of the old SVN repository.

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:00 pm

tbaher wrote:Don't go there in a browser.
Checkout using svn.
svn co http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm

Works for me.

I said above I was using TortoiseSVN. Why would I open it in the browser?

md5 · Post by **md5** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:47 pm

MusicallyInspired wrote:What does this mean for those of us who use TortoiseSVN? I tried both links and neither worked.

If you're using TortoiseSVN, you just need to perform checkout on a new SVN repository, and point your client to that link. I.e. create a new folder, right click->SVN Checkout... Then, put "http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm" in the repository URL and choose "Fully recursive" in the Checkout depth option and "HEAD revision" in the revision tab (which are the defaults for me). I just tried this, it works for me using TortoiseSVN.

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:38 pm

Thanks fingolfin for clarification.

MusicallyInspired · Post by **MusicallyInspired** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:13 pm

Ah that worked. I was trying to change the URL of the current folder I was using. Never thought to try starting from scratch. Thanks, md5.

Red_Breast · Post by **Red_Breast** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 9:41 pm

The Tools page has a little bit about using Git with Windows and Mac.
http://git-scm.com/tools

The Download page has some binaries and source (which I'm going to try compiling right now)
http://git-scm.com/download

Raziel · Post by **Raziel** » Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:55 pm

svn co http://svn.github.com/scummvm/scummvm

svn: Svndiff has invalid header

What am i doing wrong?