| Git: Taking the leap |
| 20 min |
| Roberto, Ryan |
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| With features such as fast and convenient branching, offline access to the entire repository history, interactive rebasing, |
| efficient merging and code change stashing, Git prevails over other revision control systems as developers |
| are forced to context switch between code changes. As committers for the Eclipse Open System Engineering |
| Environment project, we recently completed our migration from Subversion to Git. During this talk you will |
| hear about our experience as well as additional migrations we have done across our organization involving several hundred thousand lines of code. |
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| Specifically, we will cover |
| • What are the benefits of using Git |
| • Migration from Subversion, CVS, Source Safe, and RCS |
| • Porting issues |
| • How do you get buy-in from developers? |
| • Convincing management to take the leap |
