This week’s TechMail is Converting Subversion repositories to Git. This is a small primer on how to migrate from using Subversion for version control to using Git instead. I’m still quite a big fan of subversion, but git is pretty cool too… I can definitely see the appeal of git for larger projects or projects with lots of contributors. Anyways, if you’ve thought about using git but are currently using subversion, take heart as it’s easy to do. Certainly much easier than converting from CVS to subversion was.
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I keep a git repository as a mirror of the upstream ghostscript sources which are in a subversion repository. I just ‘git svn fetch’ every so often and merge branches as needed, and it allows me to run ‘git bisect’, search through commit logs, etc. Git rocks!
Nice. I didn’t even think about using it with upstream repositories. Very cool. =)