What is this?

This is a work-in-progress conversion of https://josm.openstreetmap.de/osmsvn/ from svn to git.

GitHub is ending support for their SVN endpoints in January 2024. As such JOSM is looking at moving the plugin repository from SVN to git.

Goals

• Idiomatic conversion from SVN to git
• Third-party patches should be properly attributed by the git author property
• Properly attribute commits (svn username -> name )

Non-goals

• Repository size -- this can be done before the "final" conversion
  • This WIP conversion is using git lfs for most .jar files (7.8 GB)
  • .po files are ~4.8 GB. These are binary files and might be better in git lfs.
• Splitting plugins into separate repositories -- this can also be done before the "final" conversion
  • This can be done with git subtree split

What can you do to help?

If you are a current or former contributor to JOSM or JOSM plugins (in SVN), please send me (Taylor Smock) an email with the following information:

• The name you want us to use for git attribution
• The email you want us to use for git attribution -- this will be public via the git commit log!
  • GitHub has a noreply email address, usually formatted as [email protected] for accounts created after 2017-07-18 or [email protected] for accounts created prior to 2017-07-18. Look at Github Email Preferences (under Keep my email addresses private).
  • GitLab has a noreply email address, usually formatted as [email protected]. Look at Commit email on your GitLab profile page.

Tools used

• reposurgeon
• git lfs
  • git lfs track '*.jar' && git lfs migrate import --everything --include "*.jar"