Svn migration to git

Migration of the ontology respository from svn to git

Motivation

After much discussion with Chris Mungall, it was decided to migrate all relevant files from the POC svn repo to a new planteome repository in [github http://github.com].

Not all files are needed to be moved. Most notably, the association files are too large to be hosted on github, so we are looking for a solution for this.

Also, ontology files besides the plant_ontology.obo file were stored in a collaborators_ontology folder. We decided to restructure the repo to make these at the same level

Dumping the svn repo

To keep the revision info for the files, we need to dump all of that from svn and then filter it out for the specific files we need to move to git.

On Palea

cd /data/svnrepos/Poc
svnadmin dump . > /lemma/justin/Poc_svn_migration/Poc_svn_dump

This will dump all repo information including revision info and commit messages to a file named Poc_svn_dump. I stored this on lemma as the file is large (>25GB).

Filtering the dump

Note: the following was run on one of cluster compute nodes because I didn't want to swamp palea working on it.

I decided to test this out with trait.obo first as a proof of concept. Other files should be similar with changes to the include statement

cd /lemma/justin/Poc_svn_migration
cat Poc_svn_dump | svndumpfilter include /trunk/ontology/collaborators_ontology/gramene/traits/trait.obo --drop-empty-revs --renumber-revs > trait.obo_filtered_dump

The

svndumpfilter

command will go through the dump file and only output revision info for trait.obo, in this case. The full path needs to be in the include argument, otherwise it output an empty repo. The other arguments will reset the revision numbers so that they start at 1 and have no empty revisions.

If the file path needs to be changed, this is the point to do it. Here is a command that I used to change the filename and remove the full path:

cat trait.obo_filtered_dump | sed 's/trunk\/ontology\/collaborators_ontology\/gramene\/traits\//plant-trait-ontology.obo/' > trait.obo_filtered_path_fixed_dump

Create a new svn repo to hold the filtered data

cd /data/svnrepos
sudo svnadmin create /data/svnrepos/svn2git
sudo chown -R apache: svn2git

Copy the filtered dump to the new repo

Then back on palea (svn server):

cd /data/svnrepos
sudo svnadmin load ./svn2git < /lemma/justin/Poc_svn_migration/trait.obo_filtered_path_fixed_dump

At this point, we should have a fresh clean svn repo with only the filtered files in it with all revision info.

Copy the svn repo to github

Method if repo in github hasn't been created yet (simpler)

Go to https://import.github.com/new and follow the steps there. This will use the SVN repo created above.

Method if github repo already has files in it

I couldn't figure out how to do this direct from the svn, but I figured out how to do it by using an intermediate temporary github repo.

Create a new temporary github repo from the svn using the "simpler" import method described above.

In this example, I created a temporary github repo https://github.com/elser/dbxref that contained just the PO_DBXref.txt file along with its history. I wanted to move it to the Planteome/common-files-for-ref-ontologies repo under Planteome.

mkdir git_temp
cd git_temp/
git clone https://github.com/elserj/dbxref.git dbxref
cd dbxref/
git remote rm origin
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter dbxref -- --all
git commit
cd ../
git clone https://github.com/Planteome/common-files-for-ref-ontologies.git common-files-for-ref-ontologies
cd common-files-for-ref-ontologies/
git remote add origin-dbxref ../dbxref
git pull origin-dbxref
git pull origin-dbxref master
git remote rm origin-dbxref
git push

Note that not every line is required, noticeably the "git filter-branch", but they may be needed if the repo has multiple folders or other structure that this example didn't have.