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How to verify svn to git conversion?

What checks do you perform after the svn-to-git to make sure you have all tags/branches/commits etc. as they were on svn and nothing is lost? Checks I can think of is: Number and names of git remote branches match svn branches Number and names of…
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How to make a backup of Visual Source Safe before migrating to SVN

I am beset by my lot using VSS 2005 (8.0.50727.42) as source control, which I really struggle to get on with. I am proposing moving to SVN http://www.visualsvn.com/server/ and have found a tool which appears to do the migration along with pulling…
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How to create a GitHub repository from multiple local non-git versions

Let's say I've been using a small free/open-source code library for a few years, and the project's maintainer/developer does not use any version control system. Instead, new releases are added to a publicly-accessible directory on an ftp server (in…
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Converting a Mercurial (hg) repository to Subversion (svn)

I need to convert an existing Mercurial repository to Subversion, I tried with the following command: hg convert --dest-type svn mercurialpath subversionpath That I took from the following topics: Converting mercurial repository to svn…
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TFS and one-up releases

I apologize for the length of this post but I needed to include a lot of information for proper answers. I hope this does not discourage responses... Our shop historically has coded web sites using Classic ASP with some newer ASP.NET sites…
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What is the equivalent of hg clone --noupdate in git?

We got a whole system using hglib for quite some time and we're creating an abstraction layer to customize some needs of the system, but I'm having trouble understanding an equivalent of hg clone source destination --noupdate in Git -U --noupdate …
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Inputting a list of folder-copied-versions of a project to automatically build a Git repository?

So over the last few years I've really enjoyed learning and using Git for all of my coding projects. I love having a clear timeline of all changes and seeing when a change was made. Well, I've opened up an old project that predates my Git use. I…
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In the RCS file format in a CVS repo, what does x.y.0.2 as a revision indicate?

Background I am trying to salvage code from a CVS repo. I am using reposurgeon for the purpose, and I have tried the following tools to get myself a git-fast-import stream: cvs-fast-export, which errors out (alleged cyclic branch, but doesn't…
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Clear Case to SVN migration

We are planing to migration our projects version controlled by clear case into SVN. And I have tried the SVNImporter which is provided by polarion. Its ok for small vob migration. But when the vob is larger (200mb), I will get the heap out of memory…
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How to rename a remote branch in Git so that to have a proper history tree

I know this might look like a duplicate to the other similar questions, but it is slightly different. My case: We've been developing on the master branch for a while and now we want to apply this branching model: A successful Git branching model So…
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Replace symlinks by target file content

I've got an svn tree which I'd like to turn into multiple independent git repositories. One aspect of this migration is that inodes which are cross-module symlinks in the subversion tree should be replaced by actual file content in the git…
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Migrate your data from VSS Server to Team Foundation Server

Yesterday, I asked a question Migrate to TFS and the answer mentioned some very good tools which can be very helpful. Thanks to jwanagel. But I forgot to mention there the VSS server and TFS server are two different machines. And when…
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What to migrate to from VSS (Visual SourceSafe)?

I’m looking for revision control software that would successfully substitute Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. I spent many hours reasearching on this subject, but eventually found no appropriate solution. Why? Because VSS’s shared files seem to be a…
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Delete missing files in SVN when committing snapshots

I'm moving from StarTeam to SVN, and I've decided to take snapshots of each of our releases. However, I'm experiencing a problem when dealing with files which existed in revision 1 were deleted for revision 2. How do I commit the snapshots when…
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Retain github contribution graph to account linked with company email address

Sorry, this is not code related question. Here is the situation. I joined the organization 4 years ago and used their email address to create a GitHub account & started contributing to private repositories using the same email & account. Now I am…
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