On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:06 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> "DF" == Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> writes:
>
> DF> Though double checking. It looks like rather than asking how to clone
> DF> the git repo. He's asking how to convert a svn based checkout to a git
> DF> checkout.
>
> Yes, and then there's the issue of if LocalSettings.php can survive
> unscathed etc.

You should do a fresh clone from git rather than trying to turn
a SVN repo into a Git one. Then you can just copy LocalSettings
from one directory to another.

> We also read that the SVN will continue to exist in some form. So maybe
> we pure downloaders don't need to do anything... for a few years.
>

Yes, we do plan to leave SVN up in read-only form for quite some
time after the changeover. Be aware that once we switch, changes
won't be merged back into the SVN.

-Chad

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