Re: Migrate from svn to git

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 15:13, Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net> wrote:
> I hope that is the correct list to ask some questions.
> I understood that the idea behind git is completely different and I like the
> idea behind git.
>
> But for the svn repository I want to convert I need some features and I'm
> not sure how / if to implement them in git.
>
> Corrently the svn repo is divided into trunk branches and tags.
> In each of this directory like trunk i have directories like hardware,
> software, docu and more.
>
> For each of this subdirectories I have usergroups defined which has no
> access, read access or rw access.
>
> If I understood the manual correctly I can stick on that structure and
> easily work here with the unix-permission to grant access to the folders?
> I think I have to test then acl with freebsd to have more then one group for
> each directory.

No. Git isn't centralized. Anyone can clone the repo and change
anything the want. You implement control by setting a policy on what
you merge back into your tree, which is considered canonical.

There are several on-commit filtering programs available that can do
that automatically based on paths within the repository.

> The second question is, I someone commits some files with svn an email is
> sent to a svn-commit mailinglist so changes can easily be discussed.
> The current mail is sent in html format with a colored diff, so it is easier
> to read.
>
> Is something similar possible with git or do you suggest a complete
> approach?

There are a lot of these scripts available in contrib and elsewhere.