Re: Migrating a git repository to subversion

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: May 16, 2008, 03:53 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90805152053n43add2cbj8383c475772c3681@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805151952260.2941@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, 15 May 2008, Alf Mikula wrote:
>> Having said that, I want to demonstrate git's git<--->svn
>> capabilities, and currently everybody here has and understands
>> Subversion.  So, I want to initialize a Subversion repository with my
>> git history from my local git repository.  Here's what I tried:
>
> Hmm. I don't think there is any git2svn thing, but if your history is
> linear (which is really the only thing SVN can handle, since SVN doesn't
> really do "merges" in the git sense at all), you could just write some
> silly script to extract the patches one by one and commit them using SVN.

The git svn rebase trick described earlier does almost exactly what Alf wants.

> Or, and this gets extra points for being disgusting, use "git-cvsserver"
> to serve a remote CVS repo, then cvssuck to create a local CVS repo out of
> it, and then do cvs2svn to create a SVN repo. Ta-daa!

Ugh. Evil man.

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