Re: What's the best way to make my company migrate to Git?

From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>
Date: Jun 1, 2010, 16:25 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTimenYsHEhTO3wqW_BRMMKZbA6ExLOOytaopGLjh@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinO_Z-1myhT-0TBIjELiEd4H-NnESs-AjTIpEf9@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:00 PM, Daniele Segato <daniele.bilug@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Andrew Sayers
> <andrew-git@pileofstuff.org> wrote:
>> On 25/05/10 08:42, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>>>
>>> Feel free to contribute to the Git Wiki maybe at
>>>
>>> https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitDocumentation
>>>
>>> in the "User contributed Documentation" section.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the hint - this turned into rather more than just uploading a
>> PDF, and I've now finished a complete write-up here:
>>
>>        https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SvnMigration
>
>
> That's a great job!
>
> I want to point out some difficulties I encountered switching from
> Subversion to Git-SVN.
> I'd like to discuss them here before, eventually, contributing them to
> that page.
>
>
> = Empty directories =
> Git do not track directories, it tracks content. That means you'll not
> get/commit empty directory in your
> working tree.
> Sometimes empty directory may be needed by some fancy script or
> external software you use with your
> project (example, ANT).
>
> Developers should be aware of this: if they really need to create an
> empty directory they can both
> create it through subversion both create a "dummy" file in the
> directory and commit it, if that's an option.
>

This has been solved in recent versions of git: git-svn creates the empty directories when you check out. It might not be 100% robust (I'm not saying it isn't robust, I'm saying I don't know if it is), but it works for my setup.

> You also can't create new Subversion branches or tags with git-svn,
> you'll had to use subversion directly for that.
>

Incorrect. git-svn have sub-commands called 'branch' and 'tag' for this purpose.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund