SWF / MVC write-up

Tom Zeller tzeller at dragonacea.biz
Wed Sep 11 12:50:06 EDT 2013


> Sorry to butt in, but if you're going to undergo a huge repo reorg why not
> also take the opportunity to move to Git at the same time.  Seems that was
> desired by some (move to Git) in the past and the amount of work require to
> pop a massive svn repo into several smaller git repos while preserving
> history is really not all that much.  I only mention this because we're
> doing the same thing here in the IAM group at Chicago -- busting one massive
> repo (ours in this case stretches back to 1999 and has gone through RCS ->
> CVS -> SVN -> Hg and now into smaller project-based git repos).
>> import it into a fresh repo.

It would be great if people who have moved from svn to git could rough
estimate the time and effort involved. My guess is that we would lose
1 to 3 months worth of time on the learning curve. I still have alot
to figure out with the actual deliverable.


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