migrate svn:externals to git via gradle ?

[Tom Zeller]

If we were to migrate from svn to git, we should find a way to copy
our common .settings directory to each eclipse project (maven module).

Git-specific options are subtree merging and submodules, but I was
thinking about using gradle to handle ide tooling.

I wonder if we will face some of the same maven project hierarchy
issues as spring-framework, meaning their ./import-into-eclipse.sh, or
not.