On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:09 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Folks, the switchover documentation is all aimed at savvy read-write
> developers. We drones who just use SVN as a simple yet risky way to keep
> our live version of MediaWiki fresh need instructions on how to:
>
> * install git (OK, apt-get install git etc.)
>
Actually the package is git-core.
> * convert our maintenance scripts to use git commands instead of svn
> commands. In particular for me
>
> svn update
>
`git pull origin master`
> svn status
>
`git status`
> for i in RELEASE-NOTES-*
> do
> echo $i diff:
> svn diff -r ${BASE-BASE}:HEAD $i|wdiff -d -3|tee
> /tmp/mediawikiDiff$$
> done
>
We can't possibly write instructions for every obscure shell script
somebody might've come up with. For this one I'd suggest taking
a look at `git help diff` to get an idea of how git diffs work.
> Add notes also on how we first cd(1) to the right directory, run some
> command that zaps all the hidden .svn files and another command that
> adds all the equivalent hidden .git files or whatever.
>
The .git folders will exist after you clone the repository. There won't be
any .svn directories there to clean up.
-Chad
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