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Git Essentials - Second Edition

You're reading from  Git Essentials - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120723
Pages 238 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Ferdinando Santacroce Ferdinando Santacroce
Profile icon Ferdinando Santacroce

Using Git with a Subversion repository

Using Git as a client of Subversion can raise some confusions, due to the flexibility of Git as compared to the more rigid way Subversion organizes files.
To be sure to maintain a Subversion-friendly way of work, I recommend you follow some simple rules.

First of all, ensure that your Git master branch is related to the trunk one in Subversion; as we already said, Subversion users usually organize a repository in this way:

  • A /trunk folder, the main one
  • A /branches root folder, where you put all the branches, each one located in a separated subfolder (for example, /branches/feat-branch)
  • A /tags root folder, where you collect all the tags you made (for example, /tags/v1.0.0)

To adhere to this layout, you can use the --stdlayout option when cloning a Subversion repository:

$ git svn clone <url> --stdlayout 

In this manner, Git will hook...

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