From: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:54:21 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument
Message-ID: <20070418205420.GC8524@nan92-1-81-57-214-146.fbx.proxad.net>
In-Reply-To: <200704181426.29969.andyparkins@gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:26:17PM +0100, Andy Parkins wrote:
> On Wednesday 2007 April 18 13:40, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
> 
> > An other point is that CVS/SVN actions for our developers are
> > "trivial": update or commit, nothing more (even tags are made by
> 
> > In my mind, git-svn or even git-svnserve, are THE tools to introduce
> > Git in teams not convinced by the power of DVCS. Or perhaps someone
> > will create a porcelain that offers the same simple interface of
> > CVS/SVN and will integrate it in all the fantastic IDE ;-)
> 
> It's already there.  The git porcelain can do almost anything.  If you were so 
> inclined you could write a fake svn command that translated all those calls 
> to git.
> 
> svn add = git add
> svn update = git pull
> svn commit = git commit -a && git push

It's even possible to write those as git aliases, so you can have "git
update" and "git ci" behave as cvs/svn users would expect.