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

2 messages from 2009-03-18 to 2009-03-19. Participants: Aaron Gray, Michael J Gruber.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/18383

## Aaron Gray, 2009-03-18 20:53

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

Many thanks in advance,

Aaron

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## Michael J Gruber, 2009-03-19 10:16

Subject: Re: Advice wanted to set up GIT repository manually sync'ed form SVN
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Aaron Gray venit, vidit, dixit 18.03.2009 21:46:
> 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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