Talk:Git/Conversion

Related: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2011-September/055322.html

Reposurgeon tool may be useful
The new reposurgeon project  may be useful.

It is designed to help cleanly migrate projects from SVN and CVS to GIT.

onramping developers new to git
The TODO item "Write some documentation about git usage for our developer, existing page Subversion could be used as a starting point, and a list of useful links." -- well, we have some raw material in Brion's presentation at NOLA hackathon: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/NOLA_Hackathon/Sunday#Git_stuff, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Git_notes_-_NOLA_Hackathon_2011.pdf, https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Git_notes_-_NOLA_Hackathon_2011.oga. But we'll need to test that on real git newbies. When should Chad/Guillaume/Sumana get that done by? Sumanah 21:37, 5 December 2011 (UTC)