From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Dexter Riley <edbeaty@charter•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: drawbacks to svn server + git-svn vs git server?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:19:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqbpjrhfs8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25994334.post@talk.nabble.com> (Dexter Riley's message of "Wed\, 21 Oct 2009 08\:05\:21 -0700 \(PDT\)")
Dexter Riley <edbeaty@charter•net> writes:
> Hello. My group is currently using subversion on our version control server,
> but would like to move to git as a client. We are considering using
> git-svn, to avoid revalidating the server software. My question is, are
> there any major disadvantages to using git-svn versus git?
One rather big drawback is that "git svn dcommit" has to do some
history-rewritting. In other words, if you have a local commit A in
your repository, and send it to the SVN server with "git svn dcommit",
then A is rewritten into A' (same tree content, but different commit
message at least, and maybe other details I'm not aware of). If you
use git-svn as a "better SVN client", it's not a problem, but if you
want to really use the Git part of git-svn, then this history
rewritting will break the local branches that reference your A.
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-21 15:05 drawbacks to svn server + git-svn vs git server? Dexter Riley
2009-10-21 15:19 ` Pascal Obry
2009-10-21 16:05 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-10-28 11:53 ` Tim Mazid
2009-10-28 12:19 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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