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Here's a more or less simple way to migrate from Subversion to GIT(hub), this includes mapping commits and tags and what not!

Authors

If multiple people congtributed to your project, this is probably the toughest part.

If you're not migration from let's say Google Code but PHP's Subversion repository, then it's really pretty simple indeed: the username is the email address.

I found a nifty bash script to get it done (and adjusted it a little bit):

As Derick Rethans notes in his latest post, the Xdebug project is now on github and can be found under his account.

Xdebug on github

London, UK Wednesday, June 22nd 2011, 21:47 BST

I've just opened my Xdebug repository on github.

Importing my old SVN repository was a bit of a task.

At work, we used a SVN server and enforced our project coding standard with a pre-commit hook on the server that ran PHP_CodeSniffer.

Whenever a developer tried to commit some code that does not match the standard, he got it rejected.

To be able to check in legacy code, our commit hook recognized special commit message tags like "SKIP_CS".

Developers using that were logged and beaten at the end of the week when they used it too often :)

SemanticScuttle, your self-hosted social bookmark manager, uses SourceForge as project hosting space.

We're utilizing its Git hosting facilities to coordinate development between several developers.

Apart from that, we host file releases there, use the bug tracker and have the demo installation on the SourceForge servers.

Linux Pro Magazine: "If you host your own blog or any Web-based application running on the Apache/MySQL/PHP stack, you should have a backup system in place for keeping data stored in MySQL databases safe."

If you've used the command line much at all you know about I/O redir

Benjamin Eberlei has a new post to his blog today pointing you to some PHP & Hudson CI integration resources that can help you get this powerful combination up and running for your deployment process.

Linux Magazine: "Harness the power of distributed computing using everyday Unix command-line tools and a clever little bash script."

Harness the power of distributed computing using everyday Unix command-line tools and a clever little bash script.