Hi William, I have been following this thread with interest so I thought that I would just throw in my thoughts! While maintaining synchronization with Git is part of what is needed I suspect that this will not entirely convince the management of your company that Git is the way forward. They probably see Svn as a safe repository ... The company's assets (intellectual property) are on a central server that is backed up, and the contents of that repository can be audited and so on. They may be thinking about things like SOX compliance too. So if you want them to accept Git as a replacement for svn then you need to understand and address these concerns. This means that you will have to have a conversation with them. To a large extent this a people thing ... technical solutions won't necessary convince them. They are running a company based on the knowledge and information they own - and they want to make sure that it doesn't get lost, stolen, corrupted, or whatever. And they are accountable to the shareholders for this. Also, you say that they have been using Svn for donkey's years, so from a corporate perspective it probably does what they want and need. Otherwise THEY would have decided to change it. I am in a similar situation and while developers clearly want to use gIt, the motivation from a corporate perspective is less clear and can be perceived as introducing risk. So we are looking at the wya in which repositories are set up, the topology of git repository networks, use of Gitosis. Gitolite and Gitorious, and so on, to provide some security in the corporate environment. Every company will have a different view of this so there is no 'right' answer. A lot depends on the type of product you produce and how long it will need to be supported. If you have products that need to be supported for 10 years or more then promoting a tool that is 5 years old may also raise some eyebrows! You need to have the answers ready :-) Get it right and you will be seen as a hero who understands the business. Get it wrong and you will consigned to the religious nerd category who just wants to promote his favourite tool ... which I would hope is not the case :-) Good luck with this ... you are not alone! Dave Bainbridge -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html