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Re: Advice wanted to set up GIT repository manually sync'ed form SVN

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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Mar 19, 2009, 10:16 UTC
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Aaron Gray venit, vidit, dixit 18.03.2009 21:46:
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> Hi,
> 
> I am a realitive GIT newbie, ie I have not used GIT on a project but have 
> read quite a lot of documentation on it, over the last year or so.
> 
> We are wanting to have a git and git-web repository that is synced to a main 
> SVN repository, wh only want to read the SVN repository at this stage. I am 
> planning on using git-svn raw, and do fetch'es by hand.
> 
> Is there any advice that I should know at this point before proceeding ?

Read-only access should be mostly pain-free, unless the structure of the svn repo is unfriendly. If it exists already and is large I'd suggest to do a few test conversions with limited revision range first, adjust the config, optionally set up an author map and then go live.

Michael
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  1. Aaron GrayMar 18, 2009
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