From: Peter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:44:41 GMT
Subject: Re: How do I..?
Message-ID: <eaa105840812171544i53e8a751s70ad495bb6a86160@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e1a4c7f60812171516h7b7bb1fem35dfc6f30747a740@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Dylan Martin wrote:
> Before I switched to git, I played around with SVN a bit, and started
> a few tiny SVN repos for various scripts I was working on.  So, I know
> have one git repo with %90 of my stuff and a handful of SVN repos.
> I'd like to be able to add the SVN repos as subdirectories inside my
> git repo.  I've found lots of pages describing how to convert an SVN
> repo into a _new_ git repo, but I haven't found anything yet about
> importing the contents of an SVN repo as a subdirectory of an
> _existing_ git repo.

You could convert each SVN repo into its own temporary git repo, then
use the subtree merge strategy to combine the git trees:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/using-merge-subtree.html

Peter Harris