Moving from Subversion to Git

edit Posted by Jeff Dean on Thursday October 16, 2008 at 01:58AM

Moving from Subversion to Git

We recently moved our project from subversion to git, and so far the move has gone very smoothly. The following post will detail what we did to make the move.

Our setup

For this project there 2 pairs working and we have 6 machines and one hosted service:

  • Two Mac OSX workstations with IDEA
  • One continuous integration server running Cruise Control
  • A staging server running a 2-year old version of Ubuntu
  • A subversion server
  • A production server hosted on Engine Yard
  • A Github account with the ability to create private repositories

The goal was to have one pair continue to work while the migration from svn to git was happening.