On Jan 28, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2011, at 00:07, Larry Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> Is the use of Git for committing changes to Subversion approved, and if so, 
>> are there any guidelines or tips for doing so?
>> 
>> I have prior experience using Git to work with a different Subversion 
>> repository, so I know the general method. I just want to know about the 
>> idiosyncrasies here (if they exist).
> 
> I seem to recall that the developers of git feel that keyword expansion in 
> source files is the work of the devil, and do not support it. Meanwhile, 
> Subversion does support it, and we use it in our files. It is the 
> responsibility of a Subversion client to normalize the keywords before 
> sending the file to the repository, and it is my recollection that when using 
> git as a client for a Subversion repository, it does not normalize the 
> keywords. That was some time ago so they may have fixed it. And it's probably 
> not the end of the world if they haven't. I think we had one other developer 
> here before using git for our repository, but I don't recall who it was.

I use git-svn as a svn client quite often, but it doesn't get the keywords 
right and they'll be clobbered.

Blair

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