A Git Subversion Workflow

After you’re done making changes locally…

Get changes from Subversion #

git svn fetch git svn rebase

Combine changesets using interactive rebase #

git log --oneline git rebase -i last_good_commit

This opens up your editor with a file listing all the available commits to rebase.

• Find changesets where you started a bigger task.
• Change pick to reword for these changesets.
• For changesets below each of these, change pick to squash. These changesets will get folded into the previous commit.
• Save the file to continue the process.

For each commit that you specified to reword, git will open your editor to allow you to change the commit message. Once you save and quit, you’ll get another editor that let’s you specify the commit message for all of the changes you are squashing. Thinking about it now, I can probably keep the commits that I changed to reword as pick, since this is redundant.

Push changes back to Subversion #

git svn dcommit

Sunday, December 18, 2011