SVN import to Git

svn-to-git-import.md

Import SVN commit history from SVN to git

svn-repo=url/path/to/svn/repo
dest-repo-name=my-repo

Create authors.txt file for importing change history

svn checkout ${svn-repo} working-folder
cd working-folder
svn log --xml --quiet | grep author | sort -u | \\n  perl -pe 's/.*>(.*?)<.*/$1 = /' > authors.txt

Edit each line of authors.txt file to format of:

johndoe = John Doe <johndoes@mycompany.com>

Add SVN commit history to git

• git svn clone can take a long time depending on repo and network speed, perhaps 60 minutes or more.
• Examine your SVN repo trunk, branches, tags naming conventions, and define runk, branches, tags arguments as needed
  • In the example below, the naming convention used inconsistent upper/lower case

git svn clone --trunk=/Trunk --branches=/branches --tags=/Tags --authors-file=authors.txt ${svn-repo} ${dest-repo-name}

Push to remote

git-repo=path/to/remote/git/repo
git remote add origin ${git-repo}
git push -u origin --all
git push --tags