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SF.net Subversion to Xiph.org Git migration

I'm still at renaming libSpiff to libxspf and as part of that I also decided to move from Subversion to Git. In case anybody plans to do similar here is what I did:

  1. Get a shell account at git.xiph.org and write access to /var/www/git.xiph.org/libxspf.git/.
  2. Run a few commands only my local shell: 
# Fetch old repository
echo "EdSchouten = Ed Schouten <protected>" \
    >> libspiff_authors
echo "hartwork = Sebastian Pipping <protected>" \
    >> libspiff_authors
git svn clone https://libspiff.svn.sourceforge.net/\
svnroot/libspiff --stdlayout \
    --authors-file=libspiff_authors

# Build new bare/remote repository
git clone --bare libspiff libxspf.git
echo "Official libxspf repository" \
    > libxspf.git/description
touch libxspf.git/git-daemon-export-ok

# Upload it
rsync -avz libxspf.git/* sping@git.xiph.org:\
/var/www/git.xiph.org/libxspf.git/

More on libSpiff/libxspf later.