There are a lot of reasons to use git instead of svn . But it is hard to switch to a new version control system in a running project.
git-svn is a alternative if you would like to use git with an
existing subversion repository. Unfortunately <code>git svn
clone</code> is dog slow on
windows
. And I mean really slow. It would have taken more than 10 hours to
clone an existing project from the subversion repository. As this wasn’t
an option I decided to do something which might be useful for other
purposes, too.
The unconventional solution:
Run git-svn on Linux in virtual machine on Windows and copy it the
complete directory to windows.
Install VirtualBox
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Download Ubuntu Image and unpack
VirtualBoxes has some ubuntu images ready to
run.
Configure Ubuntu VM in Virtualbox
Start Ubuntu
Configure shared folders
`
- sudo mkdir /media/windows-share
- sudo mount -t vboxsf folder-name /media/windows-share
`</code>
Thanks to giannistsakiris.com
Mount shared folder
Install git-core
Install git-svn
run git svn clone
copy directory to shared folder