Question

I wish to contribute code to http://svn.r-project.org/R/
But I only have experience with using git (through a windows GUI), and no experience with SVN.

I see from this thread, that it is possible to:

The easiest way I found was to use the git gui, and add a git svn
dcommit and git svn rebase command to the Tools menu.

If you install msysGit, it will even put a ‘Git GUI here’ command in
your context menu.

This has the advantage of not requiring any additional software apart
from git itself, and will work on every platform that git (gui) runs
on.

However, it also says:

I guess the menu only shows up once you open an existing repo. So at least for the initial git svn clone you would have to use the commandline.

Can someone please instruct me on how to get this step done? (or of a different solution, if there is a simple one for that)

Answer 1

I think this tutorial may be helpful to you:

http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/git-svn-tutorial