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How to migrate SVN with history to a new Git repository?
I read git manual, FAQ, Git - SVN crash course, etc. and they all explain this and that, but nowhere can you find a simple instruction like:
SVN repository in: svn://myserver/path/to/svn/repos
Git ...
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Pushing an existing git repository to SVN
I've been doing all my work in Git and pushing to GitHub. I've been very happy with both the software and the site and I have no wish to change my working practices at this point.
My PhD adviser is ...
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How to git-svn clone the last n revisions from a Subversion repository?
Problem
How do you create a shallow copy with git-svn from a Subversion repository, i.e. how do you pull only the last three revisions?
The git clone command can get the last n revisions from a Git ...
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git-svn: how do I create a new svn branch via git?
I have a git repository which tracks an svn repository. I cloned it using --stdlayout.
I created a new local branch via git checkout -b foobar
Now I want this branch to end up in …/branches/foobar ...
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Is git-svn dcommit after merging in git dangerous?
My motivation for trying out git-svn is the effortless merging and branching. Then I noticed that man git-svn(1) says:
"Running git-merge or git-pull is NOT recommended on a branch you plan to ...
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Is it possible to have a subversion repository as a git submodule?
Is there a way to add a subversion repository as a git submodule in my git repository?
Something like: git-svn submodule add https://svn.foo.com/svn/proj --stdlayout svn-project
Where ...
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How do I tell git-svn about a remote branch created after I fetched the repo?
I'm using git-svn to work against my company's central svn repository. We've recently created a new feature branch in the central repo. How do I tell git about it? When I run git branch -r I can only ...
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Ignore modified (but not committed) files in git?
Can i tell git to ignore files that are modified (deleted) but should not be committed?
The situation is that i have a subdir in the repo which contains stuff I'm not interested in at all, so I ...
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No newline at end of file
When I do a git diff it shows No newline at end of file. I was wondering what exactly is this message (Like am I missing out on something? Why is it so important?)
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Is it possible for git-merge to ignore line-ending differences?
Is it possible for git merge to ignore line-ending differences?
Maybe I'm asking the wrong question ... but:
I tried uisng config.crlf input but things got a bit messy and out of control, specially ...
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Checkout remote branch using git svn
I have checked out a svn repository using git svn. Now I need to checkout one of the branches and track it. Which is the best way to do it?
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How do I make git-svn use a particular svn branch as the remote repository?
A word of warning: I'm a n00b to git in general. My team uses feature branches in svn, and I'd like to use git-svn to track my work on a particular feature branch. I've been (roughly) following Andy ...
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Delete a svn-Branch via git?
I'am using git as scm of choice but have to use a svn-repo. I can create a svn-remote-branch like this:
git svn branch the_branch
But how can i delete the remote branch?
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git-svn: what's the equivalent to `svn switch --relocate`?
An svn repository I'm mirroring through git-svn has changed URL.
In vanilla svn you'd just do svn switch --relocate old_url_base new_url_base.
How can I do this using git-svn?
Simply changing the ...
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Retroactively Correct Authors with Git SVN?
I have a repository which I have already cloned from SVN. I've been doing some work in this repository in its Git form and I would hate to lose that structure by cloning again. However, when I ...
