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-# Git and Other Systems #
+# Git 与其他系统 #
 
-The world isn’t perfect. Usually, you can’t immediately switch every project you come in contact with to Git. Sometimes you’re stuck on a project using another VCS, and many times that system is Subversion. You’ll spend the first part of this chapter learning about `git svn`, the bidirectional Subversion gateway tool in Git.
+世界是不完美的。大多数时候，将所有接触到的项目全部转向 Git 是不可能的。有时我们不得不为某个项目使用其他的版本控制系统（VCS, Version Control System ），其中比较常见的是 Subversion 。你将在本章的第一部分学习使用 `git svn` ，Git 为 Subversion 附带的双向桥接工具。
 
-At some point, you may want to convert your existing project to Git. The second part of this chapter covers how to migrate your project into Git: first from Subversion, then from Perforce, and finally via a custom import script for a nonstandard importing case. 
+或许现在你已经在考虑将先前的项目转向 Git 。本章的第二部分将介绍如何将项目迁移到 Git 的方法：先介绍从 Subversion 的迁移，然后是 Perforce，最后介绍如何使用自定义的脚本进行非标准的导入。
 
-## Git and Subversion ##
+## Git 与 Subversion ##
 
-Currently, the majority of open source development projects and a large number of corporate projects use Subversion to manage their source code. It’s the most popular open source VCS and has been around for nearly a decade. It’s also very similar in many ways to CVS, which was the big boy of the source-control world before that.
+当前，开发中的开源项目大多数以及大量的商业项目都使用 Subversion 来管理源码。作为最流行的开源版本控制系统，它已经存在了接近十年的时间。它在许多方面与 CVS 十分类似，后者是前者出现之前代码控制世界的霸主。
 
-One of Git’s great features is a bidirectional bridge to Subversion called `git svn`. This tool allows you to use Git as a valid client to a Subversion server, so you can use all the local features of Git and then push to a Subversion server as if you were using Subversion locally. This means you can do local branching and merging, use the staging area, use rebasing and cherry-picking, and so on, while your collaborators continue to work in their dark and ancient ways. It’s a good way to sneak Git into the corporate environment and help your fellow developers become more efficient while you lobby to get the infrastructure changed to support Git fully. The Subversion bridge is the gateway drug to the DVCS world.
+Git 最为重要的特性之一是名为 `git svn` 的 Subversion 双向桥接工具。该工具把 Git 变成了 Subversion 服务的客户端，从而让你在本地享受到 Git 所有的功能，而后直接向 Subversion 服务器推送内容，仿佛在本地使用了 Subversion 客户端。也就是说，在其他人忍受古董的同时，你可以在本地享受分支合并，使暂存区域，衍合以及 cherry-picking 等等。这是个让 Git 偷偷潜入合作开发环境的好东西，在帮助你的开发同伴们提高效率的同时，它还能帮你劝说团队让整个项目框架转向对 Git 的支持。这个 Subversion 之桥是通向分布式版本控制系统（DVCS, Distributed VCS ）世界的康庄大道。
 
 ### git svn ###
 
-The base command in Git for all the Subversion bridging commands is `git svn`. You preface everything with that. It takes quite a few commands, so you’ll learn about the common ones while going through a few small workflows.
+Git 中所有 Subversion 桥接命令的基本命令是 `git svn` 。所有的命令都从它开始。相关的命令数目不少，而你通过几个简单的工作流程了解到常见的一些。
 
-It’s important to note that when you’re using `git svn`, you’re interacting with Subversion, which is a system that is far less sophisticated than Git. Although you can easily do local branching and merging, it’s generally best to keep your history as linear as possible by rebasing your work and avoiding doing things like simultaneously interacting with a Git remote repository.
+需要提醒的一点是，当你在使用 `git svn` 的时候，实际是在与 Subversion 交互，Git 比它要高级复杂的多。尽管可以在本地随意的进行分支和合并，最好还是通过衍合保持线性的提交历史，尽量避免类似与远程 Git 仓库动态交互这样的操作。
 
-Don’t rewrite your history and try to push again, and don’t push to a parallel Git repository to collaborate with fellow Git developers at the same time. Subversion can have only a single linear history, and confusing it is very easy. If you’re working with a team, and some are using SVN and others are using Git, make sure everyone is using the SVN server to collaborate — doing so will make your life easier.
+避免修改历史再重新推送的做法，也不要同时推送并行的仓库来试图与其他使用 Git 的开发者合作。Subersion 只能保存单一的线性提交历史，一不小心就能把它搞糊涂。加入合作团队中同时有人用 SVN 和 Git，一定要确保所有人都使用 SVN 服务来合作——这会让你的生活轻松不少。
 
 ### Setting Up ###