Re: Migrate from svn to git

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 15:13, Matthias Fechner [off-list ref] wrote:

I hope that is the correct list to ask some questions.
I understood that the idea behind git is completely different and I like the
idea behind git.

But for the svn repository I want to convert I need some features and I'm
not sure how / if to implement them in git.

Corrently the svn repo is divided into trunk branches and tags.
In each of this directory like trunk i have directories like hardware,
software, docu and more.

For each of this subdirectories I have usergroups defined which has no
access, read access or rw access.

If I understood the manual correctly I can stick on that structure and
easily work here with the unix-permission to grant access to the folders?
I think I have to test then acl with freebsd to have more then one group for
each directory.

No. Git isn't centralized. Anyone can clone the repo and change
anything the want. You implement control by setting a policy on what
you merge back into your tree, which is considered canonical.

There are several on-commit filtering programs available that can do
that automatically based on paths within the repository.

The second question is, I someone commits some files with svn an email is
sent to a svn-commit mailinglist so changes can easily be discussed.
The current mail is sent in html format with a colored diff, so it is easier
to read.

Is something similar possible with git or do you suggest a complete
approach?

There are a lot of these scripts available in contrib and elsewhere.