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Tangential, but any suggestions for educating a dev team used to another VCS? (In my case, Perforce, but I'm sure e.g. svn->git advice will be useful for someone.)

I've used both git & p4 for a while and know their ins & outs, but would love to know if anybody has any suggestions for the crossover. My X-importing-to-Y experience has been limited to svn-to-git, svn-to-hg, and hg-to-git.

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I made some success by showing off git-svn in the environments/places where they were still using svn. I would show off by using many local branches, by doing things like fixing bugs in another branch right away, test other developers' commits in other branches to see if they really work, or basically things that are hard to do with svn. They still get to use their svn repos as the "origin" but they meet the flexibility of git.

I'm asking about explaining git to people used to p4, importing tools, etc. They're already convinced, they're just really used to the way p4 does things, p4v, etc. (TortoiseGit will help.)

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