{"thread":{"id":"18383","subject":"Advice wanted to set up GIT repository manually sync'ed form SVN","startedAt":"2009-03-18T20:53:49Z","lastAt":"2009-03-19T10:16:49Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Aaron Gray","Michael J Gruber"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"108416","messageId":"79BA5EFC11BE4E06A78D39D06D1549AF@HPLAPTOP","threadId":"18383","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Advice wanted to set up GIT repository manually sync'ed form SVN","fromName":"Aaron Gray","fromEmail":"aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com","sentAt":null,"receivedAt":"2009-03-18T20:53:49Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nI am a realitive GIT newbie, ie I have not used GIT on a project but have \nread quite a lot of documentation on it, over the last year or so.\n\nWe are wanting to have a git and git-web repository that is synced to a main \nSVN repository, wh only want to read the SVN repository at this stage. I am \nplanning on using git-svn raw, and do fetch'es by hand.\n\nIs there any advice that I should know at this point before proceeding ?\n\nMany thanks in advance,\n\nAaron\n"},{"id":"108501","messageId":"49C21B91.40304@drmicha.warpmail.net","threadId":"18383","inReplyTo":"79BA5EFC11BE4E06A78D39D06D1549AF@HPLAPTOP","subject":"Re: Advice wanted to set up GIT repository manually sync'ed form SVN","fromName":"Michael J Gruber","fromEmail":"git@drmicha.warpmail.net","sentAt":"2009-03-19T10:16:49Z","receivedAt":"2009-03-19T10:16:49Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"git@grubix.eu","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/233215?v=4"},"body":"Aaron Gray venit, vidit, dixit 18.03.2009 21:46:\n> Hi,\n> \n> I am a realitive GIT newbie, ie I have not used GIT on a project but have \n> read quite a lot of documentation on it, over the last year or so.\n> \n> We are wanting to have a git and git-web repository that is synced to a main \n> SVN repository, wh only want to read the SVN repository at this stage. I am \n> planning on using git-svn raw, and do fetch'es by hand.\n> \n> Is there any advice that I should know at this point before proceeding ?\n\nRead-only access should be mostly pain-free, unless the structure of the\nsvn repo is unfriendly. If it exists already and is large I'd suggest to\ndo a few test conversions with limited revision range first, adjust the\nconfig, optionally set up an author map and then go live.\n\nMichael\n"}]}