Subversion Hosting, Git Hosting and Trac Hosting: Repository Hosting

• To retain all branches you can try the svn2git tool. However, this tool has some bugs.
• To only import the trunk (with complete history): git svn clone http://host/svn/...
• Create a [.gitignore](https://makandracards.com/makandra/522-typic...

In order to clone a git repository including all branches and tags you need to use two parameters when cloning the old and pushing to the new repository respectively:

git clone --bare http://example.com/old-repo.git
cd old-repo
git pu...

The ability to update and close Trac tickets associated with a given repo whenever a commit is made to that repo is pretty handy. No more committing, going to the Trac site, updating. I found several guides on setting this up floating around, this...

This is for people recovering from Subversion.

Get an existing from the server for the first time

git clone git@example.com:repositoryname

See what's changed

git status

Check in locally

git commit -m "good description"

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I am using git at several places: at work, at university, and at home. I want an own git user/email for each of those places, but I don't want to care setting the values each time I create or clone a new repository.

Git allows for setting user/em...

Git allows you to do a binary search across commits to hunt down the commit that introduced a bug.

Given you are currently on your branch's HEAD that is not working as expected, an example workflow could be:

git bisect start # Start bisectin...

You can convert git commits into patch files. Those can be used to apply to a different repository [1] or by someone else (e.g. sent when sent to them via e-mail).

Creating a patch in git

1. Make your changes and commit the...

• Create a branch: svn copy https://dev.makandra.de/svn/filepanic/trunk https://dev.makandra.de/svn/filepanic/branches/$ticketnumber_shortdesc
• Don't just copy the folder into your working copy and try a commit without a merge because Subversio...

Installing gems on a server that has no access to the internet (especially rubygems.org) requires to bundle the gems into the repository itself. This requires to adjust the bundle config in the repository.

1. Execute the following commands to c...

When you're using feature branches, they will stack up if you don't delete them after the merge to master. Here's how to tidy them up.

Delete feature branches

Find already-merged branches by running

# On branch mast...