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Switch from SVN to GIT

I've been using github.com and bitbucket.com for a while now, but less than a year ago, the development group i'm with decided to switch to GIT.  And I was nervous due to the fact that most of the work I did was in solitaire on github and bitbucket.  I never really was on the opposite end where I was managing and supporting other developers with GIT. But Ignoring my nerves, I started to really review best (or common) practices of GIT and how the distributed nature of it.  The distributed nature still scares me a little, due to the fact that one developer could really F'up the central repository (depending on your setup).  Atlassian's Stash was chosen as the GIT managing server, that is due to the fact that it adds features to GIT that you would normally have to do manually.  I'll jump into Atlassian's Stash a little later.  For now, just the SVN to GIT conversion. There are a lot of tutorials on how to migrate your SVN repository into GIT, my article is...