From: Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:07:40 GMT
Subject: Re: SVN to Git: trunk moved during repository history
Message-ID: <hqir8c$sqh$1@dough.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <o2i2f0f6ced1004191418i6a144652sd9ac38b07fb7b661@mail.gmail.com>

Bradley Wagner wrote:

> I'm trying to port an SVN project to Git. We have gone through
> multiple layouts for our SVN repository. It started off with just a
> mainline branch in the root folder. Then we went to the standard
> layout (branches, trunk, tags).
> 
> The problem is that when I do a "git svn clone --stdlayout" of the
> repository, it's not picking up any of the revisions from when the
> trunk previously resided in the root directory.
> Is there any way to specify that the trunk had multiple paths the way
> you can specify multiple branch folders with -b flag? What would be
> the best course of action for reporting an SVN repo who's layout had
> changed during its history?

One option is svn2git

http://gitorious.org/svn2git/svn2git

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git

examples:

http://gitorious.org/svn2git/kde-ruleset

> 
> Thanks,
> Bradley