reSIProcate migration from SVN to Git completed

This week, the reSIProcate project completed the move from SVN to Git.

With many people using the SIP stack in both open source and commercial projects, the migration was carefully planned and tested over an extended period of time. Hopefully some of the experience from this migration can help other projects too.

Previous SVN committers were tracked down using my script for matching emails to Github accounts. This also allowed us to see their recent commits on other projects and see how they want their name and email address represented when their previous commits in SVN were mapped to Git commits.

For about a year, the sync2git script had been run hourly from cron to maintain an official mirror of the project in Github. This allowed people to test it and it also allowed us to start using some Github features like travis-CI.org before officially moving to Git.

At the cut-over, the SVN directories were made read-only, sync2git was run one last time and then people were advised they could commit in Git.

Documentation has also been created to help people get started quickly sharing patches as Github pull requests if they haven't used this facility before.