Hi, I'm not involved in media wiki development but I've been through the got thing a couple of times. There's an alternative command line interface called easygit which you can download and install. It makes the learning curve shallower with more intuitive commands, more helpful output and much better man pages.
Steve On Feb 16, 2012 12:10 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.) > > * convert our maintenance scripts to use git commands instead of svn > commands. In particular for me > > svn update > > svn status > > for i in RELEASE-NOTES-* > do > echo $i diff: > svn diff -r ${BASE-BASE}:HEAD $i|wdiff -d -3|tee > /tmp/mediawikiDiff$$ > done > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
