Re: conversion from svn with renames

From: Väinö Järvelä <v@pp.inet.fi>
Date: Nov 16, 2007, 03:16 UTC
Message-ID: <D5A64E6F-D80B-4FCD-8184-F53812D4312E@pp.inet.fi>
In-Reply-To: <20070729122301.GA17016@knight.manxome.org>

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:

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>
> 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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