#364: Migrate from SVN to Git

jim — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:56:18 GMT

SVN smells. Git rules.

OK, so we need to get a publicly available Git repo in place and move to a modern workflow after importing the existing SVN stuff.

Urgent tasks:

Chris: Tell me where you want to put the master repo? In kiwi:/web or somewhere else?
Chris: add Trac Git plugin: http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/GitPlugin
Jim: import from svn repo to new git master using attached users mapping and this process: http://www.jonmaddox.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-to-a-git-repository/ (except it's git svn not git-svn per the article)
Jim & Chris: look into best way to clone the repo over the existing structure without affecting the LIVE site

Then later:

Jim: look at best workflow practices for importing direct from Drupal.org for core and contrib, plus managing the code in a multi-developer environment.
Jim: update documentation with new Git workflow
Chris: once proven to work, remove SVN cruft from sites directories.

The rough plan:

A new Transition git master repository lives on Kiwi as the SVN repo does today.
Developers clone it onto their machine, do changes, push/commit them back to master
DEV and TEST sites use a plain git pull from the master
LIVE uses tagged releases only.

Comments, issues, ideas?

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