converting from svn
You’re probably reading this for one of a few reasons:
- You’re a longtime SVN user and want to see what Git is all about
- You want to know how much of a pain switching to Git is
- You hate SVN and want to see what’s better
Instead of contributing to the mass of tutorials already written about the subject, I figured I would take the easy useful way out and compose a list of great tutorials on how to accomplish a migration to Git for those who are familiar with SVN. If you have more links, please comment away and I’ll add them in.
Transition Tutorials
These tutorials describe just how different the two version control systems are and go over how they work on a (mostly) high level.
Command Tutorials
These tutorials focus on learning commands that perform common actions between the two systems.
Migration Tutorials
These tutorials elaborate on how you can import your history from SVN and how to work with others who may not be converted yet.
- Converting Subversion repositories to Git
- Converting a Shared Subversion Repository to Git
- How to convert from Subversion to Git
- git-svn is a gateway drug
Tips related to git-svn are still more than welcome, be it configuration options, bugs/issues you ran into, etc. Submit away if you have great ideas!
beginner
smartly save stashes remote tracking branches ignoring doesn't remove a file where to find the git community finding who committed what what git is not how git stores your data converting from svn tagging push and delete remote branches installing git branching and merging pushing and pulling ignoring files the staging area cleaning up untracked files reverting files stashing your changesintermediate
find unmerged commits find ancestor commits restoring a directory from history rolling back changes with revert pick out individual commits get a file from a specific revision temporarily ignoring files list remote branches easily fetching upstream changes reflog, your safety net helpful command aliases intro to rebase finding what has been changed exporting your repository text-based graph sharing your changes count your commits interactive adding visualizing your repo checkout tracked remote branchadvanced
tig, the ncurses front-end to Git what's inside your .git directory reorder commits with rebase easily manage git remote branches keep either file in merge conflicts convert git-svn tag branches to real tags pull with rebase squashing commits with rebase bash auto completion push to only bare repositories zsh git status bash git status bend logs to your will restoring lost commits piecemeal staging fixing broken commit messagesresources
Git Community Book GitHub Guides GitWiki GitCasts Git for everyone Git-SVN Crash Course $ cheat git Why Git is Better Than X Git for Computer Scientists Git Magic Gitology gitguru Pro Git Book