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Re: working with a large repository and git svn

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 13, 2011, 03:23 UTC
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<20110113032300.GB9184@burratino>
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<201101120830.47016.wjl@icecavern.net>
Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
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>   3) I love git-svn for working with Subversion repositories, but you could 
> consider a different tool, like tailor, if you can't make git-svn do what 
> you want. I have also heard talk (but I don't know the state of things) of 
> people working on a fast-import tool for SVN, so you could git-fast-export 
> and svn-fast-import in a big batch.

I think the state of the art is currently git2svn[1] + "svnrdump load". This requires permission to change properties on the svn repo, just like svnsync would.

Hope that helps, Jonathan

[1] http://repo.or.cz/w/git2svn.git
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