Re: migrating to git: keep subversion revision numbers (as tags?)

From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi>
Date: Jan 31, 2010, 08:04 UTC
Message-ID: <20100131080450.GB30470@Knoppix>
In-Reply-To: <20100130230829.GA3544@comppasch2>

On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 12:08:29AM +0100, fkater@googlemail.com wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I would like to completely migrate from subversion to git
> (and NOT have subversion enabled anymore). However, I need
> to be able to lookup the old subversion revision numbers
> later from the git repository. The default seems to be
> though, that they are replaced by git sha-1 keys.
> 
> It would be completely o.k. here to use git tags for all
> those subversion revision numbers (if possible), so, to
> create a tag for each subversion revision. However, I have
> neither seen any option in git nor found a script which does
> that upon cloning (converting) a subversion repo into a git
> repo.
> 
> Is there a way to do so?

Another way would be to have SVN version numbers in commit message (--grep option works fine, if those version numbers have fixed format).

The version numbers git-svn outputs are ugly, but filter-branch can be pretty easily rewrite those into more pretty form, something like

"This was SVN r123" or "SVN-version: r123".

(adjust to taste)

-Ilari