Has anyone on the list moved all their svn rails projects to git?
There are a ton of blog posts and various instructions on how to co-
exist with a master svn repo, serving out your rails project, and then
locally using git, but I have yet to find one that explains the
process of moving everything to git permanently. So far I’ve cloned
all my rails projects, but I’m not sure if that’s the right way to go
about it.
Rick Olsen twiitterd a link to a ruby script on pastie that did
something like this, however, pastie is down at the moment so I cannot
get to it.
I’ve been seeing git come up a lot recently. Where’s all the hype
coming from? What does it give me that SVN doesn’t, because I’m in
love with SVN (previously used SourceSafe and CVS). When did this
start, and is there like a good writeup anywhere on why to use git
instead of SVN?
For what it’s worth, the mechanics of moving from SVN to Git are
pretty trivial – use git-svn to clone the repository and go from
there. The commands are different but the concepts aren’t alien
(except perhaps with the idea of moving patches between repositories).
The bigger issues come in with Rails-supporting software that relies
on SVN. For example, if you use piston to manage your plugins you’ll
need a new way. If you use Capistrano to deploy you’ll need to
reconfigure to use Git, etc.
