Re: drawbacks to svn server + git-svn vs git server?

Dexter Riley [off-list ref] writes:

Hello.  My group is currently using subversion on our version control server,
but would like to move to git as a client.  We are considering using
git-svn, to avoid revalidating the server software.  My question is, are
there any major disadvantages to using git-svn versus git?

One rather big drawback is that "git svn dcommit" has to do some
history-rewritting. In other words, if you have a local commit A in
your repository, and send it to the SVN server with "git svn dcommit",
then A is rewritten into A' (same tree content, but different commit
message at least, and maybe other details I'm not aware of). If you
use git-svn as a "better SVN client", it's not a problem, but if you
want to really use the Git part of git-svn, then this history
rewritting will break the local branches that reference your A.

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Matthieu Moy
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