From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dexter Riley Subject: drawbacks to svn server + git-svn vs git server? Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <25994334.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 21 17:06:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0ckl-00074s-Vh for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:05:32 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754067AbZJUPFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:05:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754055AbZJUPFS (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:05:18 -0400 Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:36378 "EHLO kuber.nabble.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753500AbZJUPFR (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:05:17 -0400 Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1N0ckb-0006Ke-TK for git@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:05:21 -0700 X-Nabble-From: edbeaty@charter.net Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? I know that the git repository would be smaller. I'm more concerned about possible svn repository corruption, performance when pushing large merges back to svn, and any gotchas you might have encountered. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ed -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/drawbacks-to-svn-server-%2B-git-svn-vs-git-server--tp25994334p25994334.html Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.