Learning the git workflow takes a bit of brain retraining, but since I’ve been using SVN almost entirely via commandline (because Subversive sucks and locks up my Eclipse when I try to use it for anything beyond synching/updating/committing a handful of files), adopting git’s commandline syntax is reasonably similar. Consider these simple operations:
| Initial checkout from existing repo for a given branch | git clone http://github.com/sonatype/sonatype-tycho.git; cd sonatype-tycho; git checkout origin/tycho-0.10.x | svn checkout http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/branches/jbosstools-3.2.0.Beta1/ |
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| Update locally checked out files from central repo | git pull | svn update |
| List locally changes files/folders | git status | svn stat |
| Diff locally changed file | git diff somefile.txt | svn diff somefile.txt |
| Revert locally changed file* | git checkout somefile.txt | svn revert somefile.txt |
| Revert ALL local changes (except untracked files)* | git reset –hard HEAD | svn revert . -R |
| Add new file | git add file.txt | svn add file.txt |
| Add new folder recursively | git add folder | svn add folder |
| Delete file | git rm file.txt | svn rm file.txt |
| Delete folder | git rm -r folder (non-recursive by default; use -r to recurse) | svn rm folder (recursive by default; use -N to not recurse) |
| Commit changed file to central repo | git commit -m “message” file.txt; git push | svn ci -m “message” file.txt |
| Ignore files/folders (in the current folder) | echo “target *.class bin” > .gitignore; \ git ci -m “gitignore” .gitignore | svn propset svn:ignore “target *.class bin” .; \ svn ci -N -m “svn:ignore” . |
Obviously you can do a lot more w/ Git than with SVN (like stashing local changes temporarily), but for the sake of simply moving from a VCS to a DVCS and being able to continue to work the same way you already do, the above table should provide a good introduction.
Reference: Git vs. SVN – Basic Commandline Syntax Reference from our JCG partner Nick Boldt at the DivByZero blog.
