On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:55:51PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Hi All, > > My apologies if this has been asked. A search of the archives doe not > show anything recent, and Google is returning a lot of spurious hits. > > I'd like to use Subversion to manage a Git. Is anyone aware of a > plugin that offers the extensions? I was thinking something like: `svn > checkout git://...`. After the initial checkout, subversion would know > its a git repo and translate subversion commands to git. It would be > great if it could handle something like: `svn checkout -git > ssh://j...@example.com//opt/repo.git`. >
I am not aware of such a thing. In Subversion terms, this would require writing libsvn_ra_git --- i.e., a wire protocol client module. (But read on...) > I only need four or five basic commands - checkout, update, commit, > add (files), remove (files). > It sounds like what you are really looking for is a git cheatsheet for those five commands (e.g., 'git commit -amm && git push'), or a wrapper around git(1) that tweaks the UI (these seem to crop up every so often), or... You could look into using another DVCS to interact with Git repositories; for example: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgGit http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/foreign/bzr-on-git-projects.html Daniel > I would like to use subversion to manage git it because I'm happy with > subversion (I understand the workflow and know the commands), git > baffles me due to its workflow and out-of-the-box complexity (I have > no clue as to what most of [1] talks about, or why I have to do it > after a checkout), I don't have the time to read the book at the > moment (the man pages suck, and I have no spare cycles for the next 6 > or 8 weeks or so), and I can no longer avoid git (in the past, I > simply walked away because it was not worth the aggravation). > > Jeff > > [1] > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/572549/difference-of-git-add-a-and-git-add
