Using Git with a Subversion repository
Using Git as a client of Subversion can raise some confusion due to the flexibility of Git as compared to the more rigid way Subversion organizes files. To be sure to maintain a Subversion-friendly way of work, I recommend that you follow some simple rules.
First of all, be sure your Git master
branch is related to the trunk
branch in Subversion; as we already said, Subversion users usually organize a repository in this way:
- a
/trunk
folder, which is the main folder - a
/branches
root folder, where you put all the branches, each one located in a separate subfolder (for example,/branches/feat-branch
) - a
/tags
root folder, where you collect all the tags you made (for example,/tags/v1.0.0
)
To adhere to this layout, ...
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