Johannes Sixt wrote: > Even when you want to exchange your commits between two or three machines, > all you need is ssh access. There is no *git server* necessary. git is not > svn. ;-) I'd even put this somewhat more bluntly. My two-step advice on switching from svn to git is: 1) forget *everything* you know from SVN 2) learn git as usual I don't hang out on IRC as much any more, so maybe it got better. But 90%[*] of SVN convert's problems seem to stem from some preconceived notions they carried over from SVN. Such as, "HEAD is the newest commit". Or the whole centralized vs. distributed you mentioned. [*] 78% of all statistics were made up on the spot -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- 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