GitMinutes #26: Campbell Barton on Tricky SVN Migrations

In this episode we talk to Campbell Barton from the Blender Foundation about how they were able to migrate from a very complicated SVN setup to Git.

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Links:

• The Blender foundation

Blender's migration using reposurgeon:

• Reposurgeon, developed by Eric S. Raymond and Julien Rivaud
• How reposurgeon wins (features, compares with other tools)
• Main Blender migration repository
• Blender migration readme
• Blender addons - good example of a small repo
• The git submodule issue we ran into

Blender's new issue/patch tracker:

• Phabricator (issue tracker from Facebook)
• Phabricator Arcanist (command line tool)
• Blender's Phabricator instance

"Famous" Git migrations/inspiration:

• A tale about a Big SVN to Git Migration (JBoss Tools) (slides)
• Converting a Subversion repository to Git (Drupal) 
• Migrating from Subversion to Git
• Gnome's Git migration
• KDE's move to Git
• QT switching to Git (part 1)
• QT switching to Git (part 2)
• Battle of Wesnoth switching to Git (using reposurgeon)

Get in touch with Campbell/Blender:

• The Blender Network
• Blender Stack Exchange
• You can reach Campbell via email on ideasman42 [at] gmail.com
• The Blender Podcast

This week's pro-tip:
List all files ever:

git log --all --pretty=format: --name-only --diff-filter=A | sort --unique -
See the Blender migration readme for more handy one-liners.

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