Re: conversion from svn with renames

> Hi,
>
> I tried importing an SVN project with svn-import, and the project  
> had been renamed once. It seems that git-svn is more mature tool for  
> this, even if svn-import seems to be the one to use. If I remember  
> correctly, there was even talk about this very same case in the  
> mailing list archives.
>
> To make a complete conversion from SVN repository to GIT  
> repositories, just use --no-metadata option to remove all the  
> metadata git-svn normally appends to the commit messages. There will  
> also be some cruft in the .git/config file, I removed those, and  
> have had an working import with renames from SVN.
>
> --
> Väinö
>
> On Jul 29, 2007, at 15:23, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd like to convert svn.codesimply.com/projects' contents to git.
>>
>> Right now, the content is like this:
>>
>> /projects/$PROJECTNAME/{trunk,tags,branches}
>>
>> git-svnimport does well if I specify projects/$PROJECTNAME/trunk as  
>> the trunk
>> directory and that/tags as the tags directory.  (I am not  
>> interested in
>> bothering with branches.)  The problem is this:
>>
>> For many of the projects, $PROJECTNAME was once "foo" and is now  
>> "bar."
>> git-svnimport only imports the history from the current name.
>>
>> I tried to import foo, then bar, into one git repostiory, but the  
>> histories
>> didn't seem to get connected.  Sam V. suggested git-filter-branch,  
>> but I didn't
>> quite see how to make it do what I wanted.
>>
>> I would greatly appreciate any advice or help on this conversion.
>>
>> -- 
>> rjbs
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