Re: New converstion tool: svn2git.py

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Kevin Menard <nirvdrum@gmail.com>

Date

Nov 19, 2008, 19:39 UTC

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<7e3605160811191139t34c5de7q1912475f778386e8@mail.gmail.com>

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<20081119191320.GA20870@arctrix.com>

Hi Neil,

You may want to look at this Ruby implementation for more ideas:

http://github.com/nirvdrum/svn2git/

-- 
Kevin



On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Neil Schemenauer <nas@arctrix.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a tool to do conversions from SVN to git using a SVN
> dump.  It's in early development but perhaps some people would be
> interested in it:
>
>    http://python.ca/nas/python/svn2git.py
>
> I would like to improve it so that it intelligently converts SVN
> branches and tags into git branches (when possible).  The basic idea
> is to map SVN paths into git branches, e.g. trunk -> master,
> branches/foo -> branch-foo, tags/bar -> tags-bar.  Next, specific
> SVN dump actions like:
>
>    Node-path: branches/foo
>    Node-kind: dir
>    Node-action: add
>    Node-copyfrom-rev: 3
>    Node-copyfrom-path: trunk
>
> need to be detected and the commit needs to performed with the
> correct parent.  One complication is that SVN can create a branch or
> tag from anywhere, for example, the action
>
>    Node-path: tags/bar
>    Node-kind: dir
>    Node-action: add
>    Node-copyfrom-rev: 3
>    Node-copyfrom-path: trunk/subdir
>
> would create tags/bar based on revision 3 of trunk/subdir.  There
> doesn't seem to be a good way to convert that into git.  I was
> thinking that the tags-bar branch in that case would have no parent.
> Would git still efficently pack that or would you end up with extra
> blobs?
>
>  Neil
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