bf-manual: Migrate From SVN to Git + Git-LFS #73394

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Aaron Carlisle · 2020-01-25T21:24:59+01:00

Aaron Carlisle commented

2020-01-25 21:24:59 +01:00

Why

Subversion is outdated

Subversion is a bit outdated most developers have never used it before. Using git should help lower the bar for new developers.

Better Branch support

With larger rewrites, it will be nice to have better branching support and especially when we have dual release cycles going at once we can have a dev branch and a stabilizing branch similar to what we do for rB

Process

Checkout full SVN Repo
Convert to Git https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git
Migrate to LFS (rewriting history as if we were always using LFS) git lfs migrate info --everything
Push Git repo git push

This article is very helpful: https://labs.karmaninteractive.com/svn-to-git-its-about-time-ae4c468549be

# Why ## Subversion is outdated Subversion is a bit outdated most developers have never used it before. Using git should help lower the bar for new developers. ## Better Branch support With larger rewrites, it will be nice to have better branching support and especially when we have dual release cycles going at once we can have a dev branch and a stabilizing branch similar to what we do for rB # Process - Checkout full SVN Repo - Convert to Git https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git - Migrate to LFS (rewriting history as if we were always using LFS) `git lfs migrate info --everything` - Push Git repo `git push` This article is very helpful: https://labs.karmaninteractive.com/svn-to-git-its-about-time-ae4c468549be

Aaron Carlisle commented

2020-01-25 21:24:59 +01:00

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