Git and SVN on the same system?

Question

We're currently using SVN with our own server, so I've got the SVN client and Ankh set up and working fine on my laptop with Visual Studio. I'd like to use git (with github) for personal projects and as a learning exercise.

Are there any potential problems doing both on the same PC (theoretical or actually seen)? Any recommendations on getting (*git*ting?) started?

Answer 1

I can't think of any problems, aside from having to use two VCS clients, but git actually has SVN integration, so really what you can (should?) do if you're looking to break into git is just use the git-svn bindings to consolidate down to one VCS client.

There's a "for-beginners" tutorial entitled Effectively Using Git With Subversion that you can check out for a basic workflow and examples of how to use git-svn, and a git > SVN migration crash course on the official git-scm site that explains git equivalents to SVN commands you already know.