From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Obry Subject: Re: drawbacks to svn server + git-svn vs git server? Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:19:02 +0200 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net Message-ID: <4ADF2666.1070908@obry.net> References: <25994334.post@talk.nabble.com> Reply-To: pascal@obry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Dexter Riley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 21 17:19:01 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 1N0cxi-00066t-Ap for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:18:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753702AbZJUPSo convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:18:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753528AbZJUPSn (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:18:43 -0400 Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.92.27]:12193 "EHLO qw-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751190AbZJUPSn (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:18:43 -0400 Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so914503qwb.37 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:18:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.102.236.11 with SMTP id j11mr3521450muh.3.1256138326973; Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:18:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.100? (AVelizy-154-1-56-169.w83-199.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.199.38.169]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j9sm135128mue.26.2009.10.21.08.18.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:18:46 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <25994334.post@talk.nabble.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Le 21/10/2009 17:05, Dexter Riley a =E9crit : > 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 th= at the > git repository would be smaller. I'm more concerned about possible s= vn > 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=20 information as Subversion has linear history. I understand that recent=20 Subversion versions have added some information about merges but I don'= t=20 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= =20 in mind also that git-svn is slower to get new commits from the upstrea= m=20 repository. I've used git-svn for a while now without any trouble. And I can say=20 that I won't move back to using an svn client. Pascal. --=20 --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B