Svn to git protips

"Protips"? Funny. The article is ridiculously light on details. From experience, I've found there's a lot more involved to converting a svn repo to git. After done, there's also something else I consider very important: verifying all the data after it's been moved. A few months ago, we (xfce.org) switched from svn to git. I kept track of what I did and published the scripts I used:<p><a href="http://git.xfce.org/admin/xfce-git-migration" rel="nofollow">http://git.xfce.org/admin/xfce-git-migration</a><p>Some of it is Xfce-specific, but I tried to abstract most of the site-specific stuff into env vars and such, so it should be reasonably adaptable to other sites.

This article didn't seem to have anything to do with actually switching to Git; it was just a list of SVN commands without the Git equivilant. It did mention one difference thats worth mentioning:<p><i>Since git doesn't keep empty directories, you can add a .gitkeep file to empty directories that you don't want to go away.</i><p>However, I thought one of Git's selling points was that it didn't add a file to directories?<p>And the site adding a link back to the blog when I went to copy and paste that quote? Eugh.