From 4aff509e6cba68a756e23c3cddb3491472a30e51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert Zeyer Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 14:49:03 +0200 Subject: no point in keeping two readmes --- README.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 28998a6..4211bca 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ Limitations: * Only a single tracker is supported, though this could be easily fixed. * All issues and comments will be owned by the project's owner on GitHub, but mention the SF username of the original submitter. * There's some rubbish in the comment text sometimes (Logged In, user_id, Originator) but this is in the SF XML export. +* There are encoding errors in the SF export of (at least) comments. Non-ASCII characters are encoded with UTF-8, then decoded (interpreted) as CP1252, and those code points gets encoded as XML entities. The script does not work around this. See also http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5291081/how-did-sourceforge-maim-this-unicode-character + +Code migration +-------------- + +This script doesn't help you to migrate code from SF's Subversion to GitHub. However, I found the following page helpful in doing that: http://help.github.com/svn-importing/ Usage ----- -- cgit v1.2.3 From 18d535bae1b0b7d466978dac83d273fb022b4dbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Albert Zeyer Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:04:34 +0200 Subject: link to xml export description --- README.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 4211bca..ec1173e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ This script doesn't help you to migrate code from SF's Subversion to GitHub. How Usage ----- -Run the `issues.py` script and it will print instructions. Basically, if your SF XML export is in `foo.xml`, your GitHub username is `john` and your repository is `bar`: +From SourceForge, you need to export the tracker data in XML. Read [here](https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/XML%20export) for instructions. + +Run the `issues.py` script and it will print further instructions. Basically, if your SF XML export is in `foo.xml`, your GitHub username is `john` and your repository is `bar`: ./issues.py foo.xml john/bar -- cgit v1.2.3