| # Gerrit for smoothly switching from a Subversion poly-repo to a Git mono-repo |
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| Many corporate environments still use Subversion (SVN) for version |
| control. Switching to Git can be a disruptive step that's often |
| postponed. |
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| In this session, an approach will be presented that has been taken for |
| switching a SVN-based development environment to a Git/Gerrit workflow |
| in a less disruptive and flexible way. The approach consists of |
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| 1. migrating a large number of interconnected SVN repositories to a |
| Git mono-repo, and |
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| 2. establishing a birectional hot-sync between Git and SVN, allowing |
| to concurrently use both Git and SVN. |
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| The implemented hot-sync allows to flexibly switch to Git, and the |
| change-based Gerrit workflow was an enabler for it. |
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| The presentation will cover key concepts of the migration; it also |
| provides a summary of the modifications to Gerrit and the hooks plugin |
| for supporting the hot-sync setup. |
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| *[Alexander Ost, Freelance Consultant](../speakers.md#aost)* |