The move to git!

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Fri Jul 30 14:33:11 UTC 2010


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> FYI,  git-svn is for users who want to continue to use Subversion on
> the server but interact using Git from clients.  It is not a tool
> for conversion.  It is a common mistake.

Not so much.  Many folks use git-svn to convert from svn to git.  Once
you have cloned an svn repo with git-svn, you can simply publish the
git repo and use it as your new upstream repo.  I converted the
upstream libgpod and gtkpod repositories this way.

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