A simple bundle of scripts to migrate from svn to git for instance: your repo path is: /trunk/app/vendors/ you would do: sh strip_svn.sh svn.dump trunk/app/vendors vendors.dump this would create a dump file called vendors that is just the comm

authors.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash
authors=$(svn log -q | grep -e '^r' | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "|" } ; { print $2 }' | sort | uniq)
for author in ${authors}; do
  echo "${author} = NAME <USER@DOMAIN>";
done

build_svn.sh

svnadmin create $1_repo 
cat $1 |svnadmin load $1_repo

git_gen.sh

git svn --authors-file=authors.txt clone file:///$1/$2_repo/ $2_git

strip_svn.sh

cat $1.dump | svndumpfilter include $2 >$3