[Cialug] Version control splitting repository & migration

Daniel A. Ramaley daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
Fri Jul 26 14:54:51 CDT 2013


Thank you to both Prescott and David!

Looks like 2 approaches: split the repository and then convert to git, 
or convert to git and then split the repository. I had no idea how to 
split the repository, so i'll work on one of those or the other. Thanks 
for the pointers.

On 2013-07-26 at 12:10:53, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
>Some of our programmers have been using a subversion repository for
>their projects. Unfortunately, they have several distinct projects all
>lumped together into one huge repository.
>
>We're now talking about migrating to git. I have found procedures[1]
>for migrating subversion to git, and even being able to maintain the
>commit history. However, i'd also like to be able to split the
>multiple projects into separate git repositories, for better
>organization. And i'm not familiar enough with either subversion or
>git to have any idea how to accomplish this while maintaining commit
>history. Any ideas?
>
>
>[1] http://john.albin.net/git/convert-subversion-to-git

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