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Asked: 2026-05-22T15:23:52+00:00

I just inherited a large web project using SVN for VCS. There are no

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I just inherited a large web project using SVN for VCS. There are no branches, and the project has been abandoned for the past four months – it’s pretty stable.

I plan on migrating the SVN to Git (using gitosis) while I have the opportunity – so I’ll be converting the SVN history into the master branch of the new Git repository I’m putting in place.

Thanks to a myriad of other questions here, I definitely have that part covered – from there, I plan to create a branch for each stage of development – alpha, dev, stage, and prod, and have those servers pull the branches that they “belong” to. I also plan on merging upwards (commit to alpha, merge with dev, merge with stage, so on) and pushing to prod.

I think this is the best plan for this kind of environment, but I’m wondering if there are any gotchas or anything that I should be aware of before I get started. Your insight is much appreciated!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could consider:

    • using gitolite instead of the obsolete gitosis (for the authorization layer)
    • creating several Git repo for isolating coherent subset of the initial SVN repo.
    • taking into account the identification and authorization aspects which don’t exist with a DVCS: even if you are mapping your SVN users for the migration (as described by manojlds in his answer), nothing prevent them to commit with any ‘user.name’ they want once they are working with the new Git repo.
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