[jboss-dev-forums] [JBoss Transactions Development] - Re: Moving to git from svn?

[Andrew Dinn]

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"Re: Moving to git from svn?"

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> Tom Jenkinson wrote:
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> Disadvantages would be that we would most likely do a top-skim so for a while the history would be in two places.
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> Does anyone have any particular experience with svn/git migration and can help to argue the case to move or not?
I successfully moved the Byteman repo from SVN to git using svn2git, preserving +all+ history. There were two slightly tricky bits:
* getting the authors names right -- you need to remap all the names which have been used during checkin otherwise the convert fails. so you might end up redoing the convert a few times beforeyou get them all. this is annoing as the conversion takes quite a long time.
*  pruning branches/tags which had been deleted and then recreated in SVN -- overwritten branches/tags appear with names like 4.1.3.Final at 33957. all you need to do is delete these branches/tags after conversion andbefore uploading the lcoal converted repo into github
I think it is well worth doing though. git makes collaboration much much easier both inside and outside the JBoss(TS) team.
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