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SVN no longer writes .svn in all sub-folders?

I recently upgraded my SVN client from 1.6.9 to 1.7.2 and after converting to the new format, I noticed that there is no longer a .svn every sub-folders. For my particular configuration this is not very convenient. Is there a way to undo this or…
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Any tool to migrate repo from Vault to Subversion?

Are there any tools to facilitate a migration from Sourcegear's Vault to Subversion? I'd really prefer an existing tool or project (I'll buy!). Requirements: One-time migration only Full history with comments Optional: Some support for…
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SVN to Git migration with Git-LFS

We have a huge SVN repository (~100GB) that we are trying to migrate to Git. Problem is that, the repo contains lots of binary files spread across the folder tree. First thing that we thought is to move the binaries to Git-LFS, but there's some…
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SVN load ./myNewRepo < ./myOldRepo.dump -- Can't open file 'myNewRepo/format'?

I'm trying to migrate an old repository (let's call it myOldRepo) to a new repository (myNewRepo). I've got an svndump of the old repo, myOldRepo.dump. I've checked out my new repository, myNewRepo. Both are in the same directory. I'm trying to use…
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Migrating Repo from Gitlab to Azure DevOps

I am migrating repositories (.Net, Angular) from GitLab to Azure DevOps. Can't find much documentation on the implications of this migration. My questions are: Do all remote branches gets migrated? With all commits and comments? Does Azure DevOps…
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Alternatives to Git?

Is there any version control software with the functionality of Git, but which is not under a viral license? - A "viral license" being, by my definition, one which requires derived software to be under the same or an equally-restrictive license. I'm…
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How to do database version control without migration of specific framework?

I know migration is one way to do version control on database schema. However, as I have a database that is shared by multiple project and every project may change the schema a bit. So, I would need something like branch and merge function like git…
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How to handle shared code with Git in this scenario?

I'm currently in the process of trying to switch our version control to Git (from CVSNT). Surprisingly, it wasn't the distributedness or the concept of a staging area that I had problems with. But I am having quite a bit of trouble wrapping my head…
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Migrating from Mercurial to Subversion

Possible Duplicate: Converting from Mercurial to Subversion Hi. Does anyone know of a relatively painless way to migrate a Mercurial repo to a fresh Subversion repo? Thank you.
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Convert hg branches to git branches?

I must convert a branchy mercurial repo into a git repo AND continue to pull changes from mercurial to git (one-way only) for some time. Existing hg-to-git answers do not seem to handle branches correctly. For example, a small hg repo with…
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Git and tfs: can I have only the central repo communicate with tfs?

I'd like to move my team from using TFS for version control, to git. Is there any reason I shouldn't do the following: Create a central git repository using git-tfs Have each developer clone the central repo, pull from, and push to it And then only…
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How do I migrate a Mercurial (Hg) source code repository to TFS?

This seems to be the opposite of what most people are trying to do. I want to export all of the changesets from a Mercurial (Hg) repository and import them into Team Foundation Server 2010 and include the history. I can't be the only one going to…
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Convert darcs repos to git with multiple branches

Is there a way to convert a darcs project with multiple branches (i.e., more than two darcs repositories containing different but related sets of patches) to a single git repository, so that each darcs repo is transferred to a distinct branch in the…
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Git equivalent of Mercurial phases?

In mercurial, I regularly use secret changesets to track my work on stuff that isn't quite ready to push yet. Then, if I need to make an emergency change to some file, I can update to the public revision, make that change and push it, without…
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Recommendations for migrating away from Veracity?

Any recommendations on improvements to my approach for migration away from Veracity? Background: I finally hit my limit with Veracity: all attempted commits (after 6 months of use) suddenly give "Error 101 (sqlite): sg_wc_db:tbl_gid can't find…
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