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Initializing svn repo from git

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CRChris Riddoch <riddochc@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2007, 21:40 UTC
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<6efbd9b70703161440h762bd340x787f3258bc8dfcdc@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, folks. This is probably targeted at Eric Wong, but any assistance is welcome. I asked on #git, and decideded that a larger audience might be interested in this question, and whatever its answer turns out to be.

I've been working on a project, and tracking its history in git. Due to lack of windows support, and windows-only developers joining my project, my higher-ups decided that we needed to use SVN. I expect I'll probably use git-svn, myself, but I'm faced with a task:

I need to use the contents of my git repository, which is *very* linear with only one branch, to fill in some history for a new, empty svn repository.

My current steps, which isn't complete (identifiers cleaned out to protect... well, me.)

$ git svn init svn://server/project project $ cd project project$ git svn fetch Fetching git-svn r0 = df2d1a798e85c75b9abbfd22fe06ff651a8fa9dd project$ git pull /git/project warning: no common commits remote: Generating pack... remote: Done counting 850 objects. remote: Deltifying 850 objects. ...

project$ git log
commit <sha>
Merge: <sha>... <sha>...
Author: Chris Riddoch
Date: Fri Mar 16 15:13:58 2007 -0600
    Merge /git/project/
commit <sha>
Author: (no author) <(no author)@641bd306-a92b-0410-b27c-7dcbb122c54d>
Date:   Wed Mar 14 20:41:10 2007 +0000
    git-svn-id: svn://server/project@0 641bd306-a92b-0410-b27c-7dcbb122c54d
commit <sha>
Author: Chris Riddoch
Date:   Tue Mar 13 13:54:21 2007 -0600
    Most recent commit
<skipping a bunch>
commit <sha>
Author: Chris Riddoch
Date:   Thu Feb 1 10:55:42 2007 -0700
    Initial commit of project
Um... now what?  Can someone walk me through this?

Oh, how I wish for a native Windows version of git. That's the *right* solution, I know.

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  Chris Riddoch
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