[OT] Anyone w/ svn->git experience and advice?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jacob Carlborg" <doob at me.com> wrote in message 
news:jep72q$2dvs$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> I see no reason to rewrite the history. Just clone the svn repository, add 
> the missing directories, add a .gitignore file to each of the directories 
> so git will keep them and then make a new commit.
>

Yea, like Michel said, that leaves the old revisions broken.

>
> Yeah, it's just a good page describing how to use git for a svn 
> repository.
>

It is, thanks.

>>
>> Does it still work if you give it --preserve-empty-dirs? (and yea, it 
>> seems
>> to work for me too as long as I omit that switch and allow it to throw 
>> away
>> my dirs at its discretion...)
>
> It seems I don't have that option.
>

I'm told it was added in Git v1.7.7. I had to compile a fresh git from 
source (although that might just be because I spent the last two years 
*completely* misunderstanding "apt-get upgrade"...and I think I have 
legitimate excuses for misunderstanding it, but that's a whole other 
topic...I plan to write a mini article-rant on it...)