Re: git-svn question

From: Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
Date: Jul 15, 2010, 18:50 UTC
Message-ID: <201007151250.32974.wjl@icecavern.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100715171849.GA31823@heretic.net-ronin.org>

On Thursday, July 15, 2010 11:18:49 carbonated beverage wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to import a rather large SVN tree that has
> been around for a while, initially converted from CVS.

[...]

> Given multiple projects that are nested as such, is there a way to get
> git-svn to import the tree and be able to derive the tags and branches? 
> Also, this tree is a little over 1TiB in size, though a large chunk of
> that is due to the duplicates made by SVN's branches/tags.

That sounds pretty messed up. Someone may have better advice, but I'd probably approach it by doing one or more of the following:

  1) Fix it up with svndumpfilter first to get rid of useless or duplicated 
parts, then import it.

  2) Once imported into use git rebase and/or git filter-branch to clean 
things up until it's how you like it.

  3) If all else fails, archive the SVN repository (or the git imported 
equivalent), call it "old history", and then start over and manually import 
only the active and useful branches and tags into git.