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Re: Converting from svn to git

From
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date
Aug 10, 2008, 13:24 UTC
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<20080810132409.GE18960@genesis.frugalware.org>
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:11:43AM -0400, David Neu <david@davidneu.com> wrote:
> Is there a git-svn strategy similar to git-svnimport -P that would do the trick?
> My git version 1.5.6.4 doesn't include git-svnimport, and I'm getting
> the impression
> it's be deprecated.

Sure, it is. Though if you _really_ need it, it's still under /contrib/examples.

Anyway, if you do a single conversion, then probably speed does not matter a lot; I would do a full import then use the subdirectory-filter of git filter-branch do drop everything outside the subdirectory.

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