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<li> Discussions with stakeholders, project lead
<li> Leverage the resources and expertise of prior large migrations including [https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-and-Other-Systems-Migrating-to-Git Pro Git 2nd Ed.] [https://wiki.eclipse.org/Git/Migrating_to_Git Eclipse Foundation], [https://blogs.atlassian.com/2013/01/atlassian-svn-to-git-migration-human-side/ Atlassian], [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/15/wikimedia-engineering-moving-from-subversion-to-git/ Wikimedia Foundation], [https://www.eclipsecon.org/europe2013/tale-about-big-svn-git-migration EclipseCon proposed talk by Max Anderson], [https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-org-git-team Drupal], PostgreSQL, and Pentaho. Be sure to plan for include the "before", the actual migrationitself, and the "after" migration work.
<li> Understand the concept of Git repos
<li> Know the caveats
<li> A description for each repository (which will be visible in the web view)
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<li>Use/learn from scripted recipes for LARGE migrations <ref>[https://github.com/maxandersen/jbosstools-gitmigration Max Anderson's recipe for migration of the JBoss Tools repos]</ref>
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<li> Importing your SVN history into Git
<li> [https://netbeans.org/kb/73/ide/git.html Netbeans natively supports Git] since v7.1
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<li> Establish Git Resources<li> Create Git Task Force
<li> Update references in your product brochures, project documents, websites, systems, reference materials and procedure documents to reference the new systems. This step can be ameliorated if in the beginning you reference code in a generic way such as "code.example.com" where you can then link to various aspects and implementations of your code systems; rather than naming them specifically based on technology or implementation.
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== Caveats ==
A single Subversion repository almost always contains multiple "projects" - each with it's own 'trunk', 'branches' and 'tags'. One thing you'll find moving from SVN to Git is that Git repositories aren't designed for multiple projects in the way that SVN is used. Separate All the separate projects in (from a single SVN repository ) should be moved migrated to different separate Git repositories. So you'll want to split up a multi-project SVN repo when moving to Git. A tag or branch in a Git repository is always global to the repository -- so split the code into repositories along boundaries that make sense semantically. (Note that git has much better support for including library code into a good rule of thumb project. The feature is called "what makes semantic sense as a single versionsub modules". Thus library code can be semantically split out into it's own repository, and that library can be re-used across multiple git repositories. This is like svn "externals"only better.
== Benefits Upside ==Once you've established a git infrastructure for version control, git to git migrations are incredibly easy... at least for the core git repository functions. Just add another remote to push/pull. This means that if you wish to change your git infrastructure to use a different system, the work involved will mostly be about the extra features bundled with the system (e.g. web viewer, code review, etc.) and integrations.
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