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It is very important to include the JIRA issue id in the commit. This is used in many places: JIRA links issues to the SVN commits Git commits for that issue (very handy for seeing what changed as part of a bug fix). The Hudson CI server does as well, and will actually link SVN commits Git commits to issues after succesfully building.
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For anything non-trivial, wait for the Hudson CI server to build. It catches a lot of things ... such as files that were not added to SVNGit. And even IntelliJ has a bit of trouble with wildly refactored code. Hudson will catch all that.
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