Hi, I'm not involved in media wiki development but I've been through the got thing a couple of times. There's an alternative command line interface called easygit which you can download and install. It makes the learning curve shallower with more intuitive commands, more helpful output and much better man pages.
Steve On Feb 16, 2012 12:10 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
Folks, the switchover documentation is all aimed at savvy read-write developers. We drones who just use SVN as a simple yet risky way to keep our live version of MediaWiki fresh need instructions on how to:
install git (OK, apt-get install git etc.)
convert our maintenance scripts to use git commands instead of svn
commands. In particular for me
svn update
svn status
for i in RELEASE-NOTES-* do echo $i diff: svn diff -r ${BASE-BASE}:HEAD $i|wdiff -d -3|tee /tmp/mediawikiDiff$$ done
Add notes also on how we first cd(1) to the right directory, run some command that zaps all the hidden .svn files and another command that adds all the equivalent hidden .git files or whatever.
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