Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

Posted Oct 21, 2010 14:15 UTC (Thu) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500)
In reply to: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition by brouhaha
Parent article: Lessons from PostgreSQL's Git transition

> Subversion has a much better designed repository ("filesystem") that
> doesn't tend to accumulate a bunch of bizarre cruft the way CVS does.
> Exporting a repository from Subversion and importing it into another source
> control system is *much* easier than doing it from CVS.

Unfortunately because of "branches are folders" idea, with non-enforced
convention for being in repository hierarchy, makes it easy to screw up
repository in bizzare ways... differently than CVS, but as badly.

Those mishandled SVN repositories are PITA to import to Git.