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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git

by Travis Swicegood
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
184 pages
4h 47m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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10.1 Communicating with SVN

Many companies today use Subversion to manage their version control repositories. It was designed to be a compelling replacement to CVS and has succeeded in many areas. It is much easier to understand with its clear, understandable command structure, and its atomic commits are much easier to track.

Git didn’t set out to become a replacement to Subversion—or any other version control system, for that matter—but its features make it a “compelling replacement” to Subversion.

A quick note before we start: when reading this chapter, you’ll see references to both git-svn and git svn. This is to differentiate between the package of git-svn and the command that is executed.

Figure 12. Two options for migrating from ...
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