From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
To: Dexter Riley <edbeaty@charter.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: drawbacks to svn server + git-svn vs git server?
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:19:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ADF2666.1070908@obry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25994334.post@talk.nabble.com>
Le 21/10/2009 17:05, Dexter Riley a écrit :
> 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.
Something that come to mind immediately is that you'll loose merge
information as Subversion has linear history. I understand that recent
Subversion versions have added some information about merges but I don't
think git-svn handles this (I don't even know if it makes sense or not:).
If you have a single integrator you'll also loose the author name. Keep
in mind also that git-svn is slower to get new commits from the upstream
repository.
I've used git-svn for a while now without any trouble. And I can say
that I won't move back to using an svn client.
Pascal.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-21 15:18 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 [this message]
2009-10-21 16:05 ` Dmitry Potapov
2009-10-28 11:53 ` Tim Mazid
2009-10-28 12:19 ` Matthieu Moy
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